Blithedale

发音

/ˈblaɪθdeɪl/

别名

Blythedale

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    Blithedale Canyon, a neighborhood in the city of Mill Valley, California, United States.

  2. 2.

    A fictional communist community in the 1852 novel The Blithedale Romance, by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

词源

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

来源：wiktionary