Blithedale
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Etymology edit
A placename meaning "happy valley", from Old English blīþe (“happy, gentle”) + Old English dæl (“dale”). Note the anachronistic sense of blithe.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Blithedale
- Blithedale Canyon, a neighborhood in the city of Mill Valley, California, United States.
- A fictional communist community in the 1852 novel, The Blithedale Romance, by American author, Nathaniel Hawthorne.