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Definition of fell noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

fell

noun
 
/fel/
 
/fel/
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  1. a hill or an area of hills in northern England
    • I love being up on the fells.
    • Shap Fell
    Topics Geographyc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryFell is used before these nouns:
    • runner
    • running
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    Word Originnoun Middle English: from Old Norse fjall, fell ‘hill’; probably related to German Fels ‘rock’.
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