valley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: văl'ē
ipa: /ˈvæli/
rhymes: -æli
Forms: form: valleys
form: vallies
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.
Senses: examples: text: The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.
text: [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.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 144:
text: 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.
ref: 1968, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, volumes 11-14, page vi:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
synonyms: word: dale
word: vale
glosses: An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
glosses: An area which drains itself into a river.
glosses: Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
Synonyms: word: valley
word: combe
word: dale
word: dell
word: slade
word: vale
Hypernyms: word: landform
word: depression
Hyponyms: word: closed-cut valley
word: open valley
word: arroyo
word: bottom
word: canyon
word: chine
word: coulee
word: cove
word: dene
word: dingle
word: draw
word: gulch
word: glen
word: gorge
word: gully
word: hollow
word: kloof
word: ravine
word: strath
word: wadi
Derived terms: Aber Valley
Alfeios Valley
Alpheus Valley
Barossa Valley
Big Bear Valley
buried valley
Calder Valley
California valley fever
California valley quail
Caterham Valley
Central Valley
Chenab Valley
Chinta Valley
Clare and Gilbert Valleys
Clarence Valley
closed cut valley
Comox Valley
Cowichan 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
Grand Valley
hanging valley
Headless 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
Johns Valley
Kangaroo Valley
Kashmir Valley
Kodori Valley
Kulaman Valley
Laurentian 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
Pleasant Valley
Po valley
Ribble Valley
Richmond Valley
rift valley
Rift Valley
river valley
Sacramento Valley
Salinas Valley
San Fernando Valley
San Gabriel Valley
San Pornando Valley
Scandia Valley
Seaton Valley
sea valley
Silent 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
Valley Heights
valley-land
valleyland
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: word: dale
word: dell
word: glen
word: strath
word: vale
word: abyss
word: chasm
word: gulf