Meanings
proper noun
- The valley of the River Dee in Cumbria, England.
As a watery sun caught a patch of green fields amid a cleft in the hills, far away deep to our left, he made his second remark since we left Hellifield. "Dentdale, best o' lot"—that was his opinion.
1953 June, Geoffrey G. Hoare, “Pennine Railroad”, in Railway Magazine, page 410
Origin
From the village of Dent + dale.
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Dentdale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dentdale
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“Dentdale.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dentdale. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dentdale,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dentdale.
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