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valley

[ val-ee ]

noun

plural valleys.
  1. an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, especially one following the course of a stream.
  2. an extensive, more or less flat, and relatively low region drained by a great river system.
  3. any depression or hollow resembling a valley.
  4. a low point or interval in any process, representation, or situation.
  5. any place, period, or situation that is filled with fear, gloom, foreboding, or the like:

    the valley of despair.

  6. Architecture. a depression or angle formed by the meeting of two inclined sides of a roof.
  7. the lower phase of a horizontal wave motion.


valley

/ ˈ±¹Ã¦±ôɪ /

noun

  1. a long depression in the land surface, usually containing a river, formed by erosion or by movements in the earth's crust
  2. the broad area drained by a single river system

    the Thames valley

  3. any elongated depression resembling a valley
  4. the junction of a roof slope with another or with a wall
  5. modifier relating to or proceeding by way of a valley

    a valley railway

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

valley

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  1. A long, narrow region of low land between ranges of mountains, hills, or other high areas, often having a river or stream running along the bottom. Valleys are most commonly formed through the erosion of land by rivers or glaciers. They also form where large regions of land are lowered because of geological faults.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of valley1

1250–1300; Middle English valeie, valey < Old French valee, equivalent to val vale ( def ) + -ee < Latin -Äå³Ù²¹, feminine of -Äå³Ù³Ü²õ -ate 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of valley1

C13: from Old French valee, from Latin vallis
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Lewis predicted the storm clouds will dissipate Saturday to make way for a “good, dry warming trend,†with temperatures climbing to the mid 70s and low 80s in the valleys.

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"They cut the services. If you go back to the old days there were more buses than there are now, especially up in the valleys."

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Others took refuge in the valleys among nomadic goat and camel herders, they told the BBC.

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In some nearby coastal valleys, highs could be 20 degrees above average for this time of year, peaking in the low 90s, Lewis said.

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The team retrieved 10 bodies of government fighters, which all appeared to have been thrown from a hillside into a valley.

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