# valley
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English valey, valeye, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vallēs/vallis. Doublet of vlei and vly. Displaced native dene, from dene and partially displaced native dale, from dæl.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: văl'ē, IPA: /ˈvæli/
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* Rhymes: -æli
* Hyphenation: val‧ley

### Noun

valley (plural valleys or (obsolete) vallies)
* An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
    Synonyms: dale, (poetic) vale; see also Thesaurus:valley
    The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.
** 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 144:[I]t sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and water-courses even as I have heard the carbonic acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.
** 1968, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, volumes 11-14, page vi:The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west.
** 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.

#### Antonyms

* levée

#### Hyponyms

* closed-cut valley
* open valley

#### Derived terms

* Aber Valley
* Alfeios Valley
* Alpheus Valley
* Barossa Valley
* Big Bear Valley
* buried valley
* Calder Valley
* California valley quail
* Caterham Valley
* Central Valley
* Chinta Valley
* Clare and Gilbert Valleys
* Clarence Valley
* closed cut valley
* Comox Valley
* cream of the valley
* Cuckmere Valley
* Culm Valley
* Darran Valley
* Death Valley
* Derwent Valley
* Diamond Valley
* Dnieper Valley
* dry valley, Dry Valley
* false lily of the valley
* feathery false lily of the valley
* Fertile Valley
* Findon Valley
* Forge Valley
* Fort Valley
* Garden Valley
* Garw Valley
* Golden Valley
* Golden Valley County
* hanging valley
* Heads of the Valleys Road
* Holme Valley
* Huon Valley
* Indus Valley Civilization
* intervalley
* in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
* intravalley
* Itchen Valley
* Kangaroo Valley
* Kashmir Valley
* Kodori Valley
* Kulaman Valley
* Lehigh Valley
* lily-of-the-valley
* lily of the valley
* Little Valley
* Lizon Valley
* Llynfi Valley
* Lockyer Valley
* Meander Valley
* Mole Valley
* Moonee Valley
* multivalley
* Nambucca Valley
* Nappy Valley
* New Valley
* Ogmore Valley
* Ohio Valley disease
* open valley
* Pahvant Valley plague
* Pauls Valley
* Pentewan Valley
* Pine Valley Mountains
* Po valley
* Ribble Valley
* Richmond Valley
* rift valley
* Rift Valley
* river valley
* Sacramento Valley
* San Fernando Valley
* San Gabriel Valley
* San Pornando Valley
* Scandia Valley
* Seaton Valley
* sea valley
* Silicone Valley
* Silicon Valley
* Skull Valley
* Snowy Valleys
* Spokane Valley
* Tanat Valley
* Tay Valley
* Tees Valley
* Test Valley
* there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley
* The Valley
* through valley
* trough valley
* uncanny valley
* U-shaped valley
* U-valley
* Valley
* valley board
* valley boy
* Valley Center
* Valley City
* Valley County
* valley dweller
* Valley East
* Valley Falls
* valley fever
* valley fill
* valley floor
* valley fold
* valley-girl
* valley girl
* valleyland
* valley land
* valley-land
* valleyless
* valleylike
* valley of death
* Valley of the Kings
* valley of the shadow of death
* Valley of the Sun
* valley piece
* valley quail
* valley rafter
* valleyscape
* Valley Township
* valleyward
* valleywards
* V-shaped valley
* Water Valley
* West Valley City
* wild lily-of-the-valley
* Wye Valley
* Wyoming Valley
* Yass Valley
* yodel up the valley

#### Related terms

* dale
* dell
* glen
* strath
* vale

#### Translations
### Verb

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, 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.

### References

* “valley, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* “valley, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

### Anagrams

* Lavely, y'all've

## Manx
### Noun

valley
* Lenited form of balley.