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# dingle

«dingle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small wooded valley or deep, shady hollow with steep sides** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (dingle, dingles)

### meaning for a pupil

A dingle is a small wooded valley or deep, shady hollow with steep sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingle/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories a dingle is a shady hollow where people live or meet; in lessons it names a place in the countryside

### examples

- We walked down into the dingle to find the stream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingle/#x1)
- Ferns grew thick in the dingle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingle/#x2)
- The old healer lived in a dingle by the wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingle/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dingle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dingle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.