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Dale vs Meadow - What's the difference?

dale | meadow |

As nouns the difference between dale and meadow

is that dale is a valley in an otherwise hilly area while meadow is a field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.

As proper nouns the difference between dale and meadow

is that dale is {{surname|from=Middle English}} for someone living in a dale while Meadow is a town in Texas.

dale

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK) a valley in an otherwise hilly area.
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  • A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
  • (Knight)
    (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * dell, dells * vale * valley

    Anagrams

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    meadow

    English

    (wikipedia meadow)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.
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  • Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
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  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Nancy Langston
  • , volume=101, issue=1, page=59, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Fraught History of a Watery World , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

    Derived terms

    * catch-meadow * meadow barley * meadow beauty * meadow bright * meadow buttercup * meadow clary * meadow clover * meadow cranesbill * meadow cress * meadow dermatitis * meadow fern * meadow fescue * meadow foxtail * meadow frog * meadow golden * meadow grass * meadow horsetail * meadow jumping mouse * meadow leek * meadow lily * meadow mouse * meadow muffin * meadow mushroom * meadow nematode * meadow ore * meadow oxeye * meadow pea * meadow pink * meadow pipit * meadow rue * meadow saffron * meadow salsify * meadow saxifrage * meadow spikemoss * meadow spittlebug * meadow starling * meadow thistle * meadow violet * meadow vole * meadowage * meadowed * meadower * meadowing * meadowish * meadowland * meadowlark * meadowless * meadowsweet * meadow-wink * meadowy * queen of the meadow * water meadow