Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Valley
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African
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Val"ley
Senses
- The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively."The valley of the shadow of death." [Ps. xxiii. 4.]"Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains." [Milton.]
- [Arch]
- The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reëntrant angle.
- The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
- The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reëntrant angle.
Note: ☞ Deep and narrow valleys with abrupt sides are usually the results of erosion by water, and are called gorges ravines cañons gulches, etc.
Etymology: OE. vale valeie, OF. valée valede, F. vallée, LL. vallata, L. vallis valles. See Vale
Other Dictionary Sources
- A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
Wiktionary
From Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vallēs/vallis
- An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
- The area which drains into a river.
- Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
- The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.