Valley

Noun

 * 1) An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
 * 2) The area which drains into a river.
 * 3) Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.
 * 4) The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
 * 5) (architecture) The angle formed by the meeting of two slopes of a pitched roof forming a drainage line

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:valley

Derived terms

 * uncanny valley
 * closed-cut valley
 * open valley

Adjectives for Valley
fantastic; stretching; fertile; overshadowed; precipitous; placid; solitary; sun-baked; pleasant; delectable; tributary; lofty; rugged; canyon-like; seductive; miserable; heated; copse-clad; picturesque; fabled; serene; blooming; fog-obscured; profound; irregular; branching; beautiful; breathless; solitary; pastoral; fruitful; wooded; flowering; watered; lovely; nest-like; desolate; immense; widening; conspicuous; shallow; redolent; grassy; oblivious; receding; haystack-dotted; verdant; cozy; little; terrible; formless; tiny; untenable; hill-beholden; flat-bottomed; dizzy; lonely; mountain; dusky; southern; imperial; winding; viewless; pathless.

Verbs for Valley
command—; dash to—; devastate—; discern —; dot—; dwell in—; fill—; haunt—; inhabit—; overrun—; overspread—; penetrate —; people—; permeate—; pervade—; revisit—; ring through—; settle in—; view— —awakes; —bestirs; —blossoms; —bristles —dozes; —endures; —glistens; —inspires —sleeps; —snuggles; —thickens; —waxes —winds.

Thesaurus
abysm, abyss, arroyo, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cirque, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, comb, combe, corrie, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, dale, defile, dell, dike, dingle, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill, glen, gorge, groove, grove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hollow, incision, intervale, joint, kloof, leak, lunar rill, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, split, strath, trench, trough, vale, void, wadi

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/v{l.li/}}

Etymology
vallée:, valee:, from  valles:/vallis:

Translations

 * Albanian:, val
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: (wádi)
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܥܘܡܩܐ (‘ūmqā’)
 * Hebrew: עומקא (‘ūmqā’)
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: ibar, haran
 * Bengali: উপত্যকা
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: vall
 * Chinese: 山谷 (shāngǔ)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:, dolina
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: laakso (1)
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: awāwa
 * Hebrew: עמק (‘emek)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 谷 (たに, tani)
 * Khmer: (jrəlorng pnŭm)
 * Korean: 골짜기 (goljjagi), 계곡 (gyegok)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: ieleja
 * Khmer: (jrəlorng pnŭm)
 * Korean: 골짜기 (goljjagi), 계곡 (gyegok)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: ieleja
 * Latvian: ieleja


 * Lithuanian:
 * Lower Sorbian: dłymocyna
 * Maltese:
 * Mongolian: уулын хѳндий
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: vale
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English:
 * Old French:
 * Old Norse: dalr
 * Persian: بازه, خلیف,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: val
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: долина (dolina)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: lambak
 * Taos: bòyi’ína
 * Thai: (hòop),  (hòop kăo),  (hòop hĕo)
 * Turkish:
 * Uyghur: ۋادى
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: טאָל (tol)
 * Taos: bòyi’ína
 * Thai: (hòop),  (hòop kăo),  (hòop hĕo)
 * Turkish:
 * Uyghur: ۋادى
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: טאָל (tol)
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yiddish: טאָל (tol)