Vale vs Dingle - What's the difference?
vale | dingle | Synonyms |
(mostly, poetic) A valley.
* (rfdate) Harte
* , Hymn 214'', ''The Issues of Life and Death ,
* 19th c , ,
A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
* 1954 , , Chapter 4
Vale is a synonym of dingle.
As a verb vale
is to be worth.As a proper noun dingle is
a harbour town in county kerry ireland, and the peninsula on which it stands.vale
English
Etymology 1
(etyl), from (etyl) , from (etyl) vallis, vallesNoun
(en noun)- In those fair vales , by nature formed to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease
- Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above,
- "Make me a cottage in the vale ," she said, / "Where I may mourn and pray.
Synonyms
* (valley) dale ** See alsoAntonyms
* (valley) hillEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----dingle
English
Noun
(en noun)- Turning to the left and skirting this huge hedge Treebeard came in a few strides to a narrow entrance. Through it a worn path passed and dived suddenly down a long steep slope. The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle , almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge.