valley

UK /ˈvæli/ US /ˈvæli/

name 7noun 3verb 1

Definitions

noun

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.

[I]t sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and water-courses even as I have heard the carbonic acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.

An area which drains itself into a river.

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

verb

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, […]

name

A surname from landforms.

A placename:

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

broad, deep, high, long, steep, wide

little, narrow, shallow, small

steep

lower, upper

fertile, forested, green, wooded

mountain, river

Rhine, Thames, etc.

VALLEY + NOUN

bottom, floor, side

PREP

in a/the ~

The small town nestled in a valley was surrounded by steep green mountains on all sides.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a long depression in the surface of the land that usually co

vale

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

valley of death

Death, or a place or period where death is impending.

Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.

valley of the shadow of death

The world, a place where darkness and death are figurative valleys one must walk through as part of the human experience.

Yea though I walke through the valley of the shadowe of death, I will feare no euill: for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staffe, they comfort me.

there may be snow on the mountaintop but there's fire in the valley

Synonym of there may be snow on the rooftop but there is fire in the furnace.

in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

Alternative form of in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Example Bank

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

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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.

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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; […]

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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, […]

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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

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, valley is marked as poetic, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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