English Explanatory Dictionary

Blithedale

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Blithedale Canyon, a neighborhood in the city of Mill Valley, California, United States.
  2. A fictional communist community in the 1852 novel The Blithedale Romance, by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Pronunciation

/ˈblaɪθdeɪl/

Word forms

Blithedale Blythedale

Etymology

A placename meaning "happy valley", from Old English blīþe (“happy, gentle”) + Old English dæl (“dale”). Note the anachronistic sense of blithe.

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