vale
IPA: vˈeɪɫ
noun
- (chiefly poetic) A valley.
- (soccer, informal) Port Vale FC.
- An unincorporated community in Avery County, North Carolina, United States.
- A small area in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Malheur County, Oregon, United States.
- A census-designated place in Butte County, South Dakota, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States.
- A surname.
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Examples of "vale" in Sentences
- Of a gentle shepherd maiden, dwelling in Italian vale,
- Hola, quote. .vale comes from the word valorIt's not worth much, It's cheap, That stock is valueless, etc.
- To add to the confusion, the word "vale" is used to mean a dozen things in Spain, including good, ok, yes, etc.
- The poet in Keats informs his being a prose writer of genius, as when he delights in the word vale (which appears in the opening line of Hyperion):
- Ffrom Hungerford to Newbury in Barkshire 7 mile all very deep way, 15 mile thence to Reading in Barkshire flatt way, but ye vale is heavy sand for 3 or 4 mile.
- Among them were a dozen stoic fighters from the New York Underground Combat League, the rules of which are summarized by the phrase "vale tudo," Portuguese for "anything goes."
- But if he is wise he will, as Milton also did, make it up again, and get the most that he can from his stony-hearted stepmother before the time comes for him to bid her his _Vale vale et aeternum vale_.
- "Now to return to the youth in the corner: _Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit_, Jemmy keep your money, or give it to the priest to keep, and it will be safest; but by no means let the Hyblean honey of the schoolmaster's blarney deprive you of it, otherwise it will be a _vale, vale, longum vale_ between you.
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