valley
See also: Valley
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English valeye, valey, 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
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: văl'ē, IPA(key): /ˈvæli/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -æli
- Hyphenation: val‧ley
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- Aber Valley
- Aire Valley
- Alfeios Valley
- Alpheus Valley
- Angas Valley
- Arcadia Valley
- Back Valley
- Bardwell Valley
- Barossa Valley
- Beenaam Valley
- Beetaloo Valley
- Berkshire Valley
- Big Bear Valley
- Boyne Valley
- Broughton River Valley
- buried valley
- Calder Valley
- California valley fever
- California valley quail
- Cannon Valley
- Caterham Valley
- Central Valley
- Chain Valley Bay
- Chatham Valley
- Chenab Valley
- Chiltern Valley
- Chinta Valley
- Clare and Gilbert Valleys
- Clarence Valley
- closed cut valley
- Cockatoo Valley
- Comox Valley
- Coromandel Valley
- Cowichan Valley
- cream of the valley
- Cuckmere Valley
- Culm Valley
- Currumbin Valley
- Darran Valley
- Death Valley
- Deddick Valley
- Delaware Valley
- Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area
- Dene Valley
- Derwent Valley
- Deua River Valley
- Diamond Valley
- Dnieper Valley
- Don Valley
- dry valley, Dry Valley
- Dumaresq Valley
- Dundas Valley
- Eden Valley
- Elbow Valley
- Eva Valley
- false lily of the valley
- Fassifern Valley
- feathery false lily of the valley
- Fertile Valley
- Findon Valley
- Finniss Valley
- Fitzgerald Valley
- Flaxman Valley
- Forge Valley
- Fortitude Valley
- Fort Valley
- Fosters Valley
- Fraser Valley
- Garden Valley
- Garland Valley
- Garw Valley
- Glenning Valley
- Glen Valley
- Glenworth Valley
- Golden Valley
- Golden Valley County
- Grand Valley
- Grass Valley
- Green Valley
- Greenwoods Valley
- Hamilton Valley
- hanging valley
- Happy Valley
- Hay Valley
- Headless Valley
- Heads of the Valleys Road
- Helena Valley
- Hidden Valley
- Highland Valley
- Hindmarsh Valley
- Holme Valley
- Hope Valley
- Howes Valley
- Huon Valley
- Indigo Valley
- Indus Valley Civilization
- Inman Valley
- intervalley
- in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- intravalley
- Itchen Valley
- Johns Valley
- Kangaroo Valley
- Kashmir Valley
- Kenton Valley
- King Valley
- Kodori Valley
- Kulaman Valley
- Kyvalley
- Lambs Valley
- Laurentian Valley
- Lehigh Valley
- Lenah Valley
- lily of the valley
- lily-of-the-valley
- Little Valley
- Lizon Valley
- Llynfi Valley
- Loch Valley
- Lockyer Valley
- Lower Inman Valley
- Meander Valley
- Megalong Valley
- Mole Valley
- Molonglo Valley
- Mooloolah Valley
- Moonee Valley
- multivalley
- Nambucca Valley
- Napa Valley
- Nappy Valley
- Nariel Valley
- Narrogin Valley
- Nene Valley
- New Valley
- North Boambee Valley
- Numinbah Valley
- Oak Valley
- Ogmore Valley
- Ohio Valley disease
- Omeo Valley
- open valley
- Orchid Valley
- Pahvant Valley plague
- Paulls Valley
- Pauls Valley
- Pentewan Valley
- Perisher Valley
- Picketts Valley
- Pillar Valley
- Pine Valley
- Pine Valley Mountains
- Pleasant Valley
- Poplar Valley
- Po valley
- Primrose Valley
- Rangers Valley
- Ribble Valley
- Richmond Valley
- Rift Valley
- rift valley
- river valley
- Rock Valley
- Rose Valley
- Sacramento Valley
- Salinas Valley
- Samford Valley
- San Fernando Valley
- San Gabriel Valley
- San Pornando Valley
- Sawyers Valley
- Scandia Valley
- Seaton Valley
- sea valley
- Second Valley
- Silent Valley
- Silicone Valley
- Silicon Valley
- Silver Valley
- Skull Valley
- Snake Valley
- Snowy Valleys
- Spokane Valley
- Stewart Creek Valley
- Sun Valley
- Tallangatta Valley
- Tallebudgera Valley
- Tanat Valley
- Tarra Valley
- Tay Valley
- Tees Valley
- Test Valley
- there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley
- The Valley
- Thowgla Valley
- through valley
- Totnes Valley
- trough valley
- uncanny valley
- Upper Kangaroo 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
- valleyland
- valley-land
- valley land
- valleyless
- valleylike
- valley of death
- Valley Of Lagoons
- Valley of the Kings
- valley of the shadow of death
- Valley of the Sun
- valley piece
- valley quail
- valley rafter
- valleyscape
- Valley Township
- Valley View
- valleyward
- valleywards
- Victoria Valley
- V-shaped valley
- Wardrop Valley
- Water Valley
- West Valley City
- White Gum Valley
- Whites Valley
- Wild Dog Valley
- wild lily-of-the-valley
- Wilson Valley
- Winter Valley
- Wolgan Valley
- Wye Valley
- Wyoming Valley
- Yass Valley
- yodel up the valley
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]elongated depression between hills or mountains
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Verb
[edit]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
[edit]- “valley, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “valley, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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