Valley

Quick meaning: Valley is a noun meaning An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.

Meaning

An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.

More Meanings

1. An area which drains itself into a river.
2. Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
3. (intransitive, poetic, rare) To form the shape of a valley.

Example Sentences

The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.

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, […]

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.

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; […]

Word Forms

• valleys
• vallies
• valleying
• valleyed

Synonyms for valley

Depending on context, synonyms include combe, dale, dell, slade, vale.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vale, canyon, glen, ravine, dale, wadi.

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