valley
See also: Valley
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English valey, valeye, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vallēs/vallis. Doublet of vlei. Displaced native dene, from Old English dene.
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NounEdit
valley (plural valleys)
- An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often garnished with a river flowing through it.
- Synonyms: dale, (poetic) vale; see also Thesaurus:valley
- 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
- Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
- An area which drains itself into a river.
- Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
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- Aber Valley
- Calder Valley
- Caterham Valley
- Central Valley
- Chinta Valley
- Clare and Gilbert Valleys
- closed cut valley
- Cuckmere Valley
- Culm Valley
- Darran Valley
- Death Valley
- Diamond Valley
- dry valley, Dry Valley
- Fort Valley
- Garden Valley
- Garw Valley
- Golden Valley
- Golden Valley County
- Heads of the Valleys Road
- Holme Valley
- in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- Indus Valley Civilization
- intervalley
- intravalley
- Itchen Valley
- Kangaroo Valley
- Kashmir Valley
- Kodori Valley
- Lehigh Valley
- lily of the valley
- Little Valley
- Llynfi Valley
- Lockyer Valley
- Mole Valley
- multivalley
- Nappy Valley
- Ogmore Valley
- Ohio Valley disease
- open valley
- Pahvant Valley plague
- Pauls Valley
- Pentewan Valley
- Po valley
- Ribble Valley
- Rift Valley
- rift valley
- Seaton Valley
- Silicon Valley
- Spokane Valley
- Tanat Valley
- Test Valley
- The Valley
- there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley
- uncanny valley
- Valley
- valley board
- valley boy
- Valley City
- Valley County
- valley fever
- valley fill
- valley floor
- valley fold
- valley girl
- valley of death
- Valley of the Kings
- valley of the shadow of death
- Valley of the Sun
- valley piece
- valley rafter
- Valley Township
- valley-like
- valleyland
- valleyless
- valleyscape
- valleyward
- valleywards
- Water Valley
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
elongated depression between hills or mountains
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VerbEdit
valley (third-person singular simple present valleys, present participle valleying, simple past and past participle valleyed)
- (intransitive, poetic, rare) To form the shape of a valley.
- 1879, George Meredith, chapter XVIII, in The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative. […], volume I, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], OCLC 1934887, page 323:
- These hues of red rose and green and pale green, ruffled and pouted in the billowy white of the dress ballooning and valleying softly, like a yacht before the sail bends low; […]
- 1970, Charles Wright, The Grave of the Right Hand, Middletown, C.T.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 25:
- Over Govino Bay, looking up from the water’s edge, the landscape resembles nothing so much as the hills above Genova, valleying into the sea, […]
- 2009, Gian Franco Romagnoli, The Bicycle Runner: A Memoir of Love, Loyalty, and the Italian Resistance, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 117:
- There must be something atavistic in the male blood that makes it rush, relent, rush with the peaks and the valleys, the roundness of Lia's breasts valleying and peaking, the stretch of her neck, the swaying of her hips.
ReferencesEdit
- “valley, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “valley, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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valley
- Lenited form of balley.