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combe

noun
/kuːm/UK

Etymology

From Middle English coumbe, cumbe, from Old English cumb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; compare Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kump (“vessel”). Related to Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”), etc. through Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ-.

  1. derived from *ḱumbʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *kumbaz✻
  3. inherited from cumb
  4. inherited from coumbe

Definitions

  1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river

    • its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.
    • gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.
    • You wake up next morning on what looks like Salisbury Plain, only here you climb up the side of every combe, round the end and out the other side.

  2. A cirque.

  3. A surname.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A number of places in England

      A number of places in England:

The neighborhood

Derived

Comberow, Comstock, Abbas Combe, Castle Combe, Combe Florey, Combe Hay, Combe Martin, Combe St Nicholas, Haccombe with Combe, Monkton Combe

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA