VALLEY
\vˈalɪ], \vˈalɪ], \v_ˈa_l_ɪ]\
Definitions of VALLEY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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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.
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The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
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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.
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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.
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The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A vale or low land between hills or mountains: a low, extended plain, usually watered by a river:-pl. VALLEYS.
By Daniel Lyons
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A depression between hills.
By James Champlin Fernald
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