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glen
[glen] 
–noun
| a small, narrow, secluded valley. |
Origin:
1480–90; < Ir, ScotGael gleann; c. Welsh glynn
1480–90; < Ir, ScotGael gleann; c. Welsh glynn
Related forms:
glenlike, adjective
Glen
[glen] –noun
| a male or female given name. |
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| glen (glěn) n. A small, secluded valley. [Middle English, from Scottish Gaelic gleann, from Old Irish glenn.] |
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Glen
Glen\, n. [Of Celtic origin; cf. W. glyn a deep valley, Ir. & Gael. gleann valley, glen.] A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. --Spenser.
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glen
"narrow valley," 1489, from Scottish, from Gaelic gleann "mountain valley" (cf. Welsh glyn). Common in place names, cf. Glenlivet (1822), a kind of whiskey, named for the place it was first made (lit. "the glen of the Livet," a tributary of the Avon); and Glengarry (1841) a kind of man's cap, of Highland origin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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