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Blithedale.

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

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Meaning & usage

name/ˈblaɪθdeɪl/
  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.

Where this word comes from

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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