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valley

noun
/ˈvæli/US/ˈvale/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from vallēs
  2. derived from valee
  3. derived from valey
  4. inherited from valeye

Definitions

  1. An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing…

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

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

  2. An area which drains itself into a river.

  3. Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two…

    Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. To form the shape of a valley.

      • 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; […]
      • 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, […]
      • 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.

    2. A surname from landforms.

    3. A placename

      A placename:

    4. Ellipsis of the San Fernando Valley

      Ellipsis of the San Fernando Valley: a valley of southern California, United States.

      • The Valley is getting downright cosmopolitan, but it’s unlikely the region will ever completely morph into a hip haven.
      • She's in school paying for tuition / Doing porn in the Valley

    5. Ellipsis of Silicon Valley.

The neighborhood

Derived

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, Bonnechere 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 · +213 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at valley. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01valley02drains03drain04sewers05sewer06channel07hollow

A definitional loop anchored at valley. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at valley

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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