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Valleys

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val⋅ley

  [val-ee]
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–noun, plural -leys.
1. an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, esp. one following the course of a stream.
2. an extensive, more or less flat, and relatively low region drained by a great river system.
3. any depression or hollow resembling a valley.
4. a low point or interval in any process, representation, or situation.
5. any place, period, or situation that is filled with fear, gloom, foreboding, or the like: the valley of despair.
6. Architecture. a depression or angle formed by the meeting of two inclined sides of a roof.
7. the lower phase of a horizontal wave motion.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME valeie, valey < OF valee, equiv. to val vale1 + -ee < L -āta, fem. of -ātus -ate 1

Related forms:
val⋅ley⋅like, adjective
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val·ley   (vāl'ē)   
n.   pl. val·leys

  1. An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.

  2. An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.

  3. A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.


[Middle English valey, from Old French valee, from Vulgar Latin *vallāta, from Latin vallēs; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
val'leyed adj.
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Word Origin & History

valley 
c.1290, from Anglo-Norman valey, O.Fr. valee "a valley," from V.L. *vallata, from L. vallis "valley," of unknown origin. Valley Girl (in ref. to San Fernando Valley of California) was poularized 1982 in song by Frank Zappa and his daughter.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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