Valley
['vælɪ] or ['væli]
Definition
(noun.) a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river.
Checker: Mitchell--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle.
(n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
Checker: Sherman
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Vale, dale, bottom, dell, dingle, ravine.
Typed by Aileen
Definition
n. a vale or low land between hills or mountains: a low extended plain usually watered by a river:—pl. Vall′eys.
Checker: Mimi
Unserious Contents or Definition
To find yourself walking through green and pleasant valleys, foretells great improvements in business, and lovers will be happy and congenial. If the valley is barren, the reverse is predicted. If marshy, illness or vexations may follow.
Editor: Stu
Examples
- She wanted to plunge on and on, till she came to the end of the valley of snow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To the eastward lies the Valley of the Jordan and beyond it the mountains of Gilead. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There were clouds over the lake and over the valley. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Besides, the stream had been dammed so that the valley was a lake. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The first civilizations in Egypt and the Euphrates-Tigris valley probably developed directly out of this widespread culture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the valley, near the Acropolis, (the square-topped hill before spoken of,) Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My purpose was to have him attack Early, or drive him out of the valley and destroy that source of supplies for Lee's army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A cold wind was coming down the Rhone Valley. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- As I had predicted, Early was soon found in front of Sheridan in the valley, and Pennsylvania and Maryland were speedily freed from the invaders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Troops from Lookout Valley carried the point of the mountain, and now hold the eastern slope and a point high up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Organization of the Army of the Valley District. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her course was in the direction of the small undying fire which had drawn the attention of the men on Rainbarrow and of Wildeve in the valley below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It is called Death Valley because a party of emigrants perished there in 1849. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You will see the Otz Valley directly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Little white villages surrounded by trees, nestle in the valleys or roost upon the lofty perpendicular sea-walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This lower country of the Euphrates-Tigris valleys had little or no stone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We heard that Germans and Austrians had broken through in the north and were coming down the mountain valleys toward Cividale and Udine. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The water lies between two very sharp slopes, with little branch valleys, and God knows where the drift will take you. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Elsewhere upon fertile plains and in more open country there were probably already much larger assemblies of homes than in those mountain valleys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ne vertheless, if you seek the very origins of the sciences, you will inevitably be drawn to the banks of the Nile, and to the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an expression about it of being sorrowful and despondent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My first real knowledge of myself was as an unprotected orphan among the valleys and fells of Cumberland. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Vast areas to the west and northwest which are now under the Atlantic waters were then dry land; the Irish Sea and the North Sea were river valleys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some of these cliff dwellings may still be seen in the valleys of the Rio Grande and the Rio Colorado and its tributaries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The high lands are used for grazing purposes, and rich agricultural lands are found in many of the valleys. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He hemmed the beasts into valleys and enclosures where he could be sure to find them again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These elements grew up and became distinct one from another in the great river valleys of the world in the course of five or six thousand years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Romansh, Italian, and French-speaking valleys were presently added to this valiant little republican group. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Millie