valley
IPA: vˈæɫi
noun
- An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often garnished with a river flowing through it.
- An area which drains itself into a river.
- Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.
- (countable) A surname from landforms.
- A placename:
- A community in Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A city in Chambers County, Alabama, United States, on the Georgia state line.
- A city in Nebraska, United States.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Valley Township.
- A village and community in Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH2979).
- Ellipsis of San Fernando Valley; a valley of southern California, United States. [A valley and region of Los Angeles County, California north of the Santa Monica Mountains, including the northern part of the city of Los Angeles and the cities of Calabasas, Burbank, Glendale, Hidden Hills, and San Fernando.]
- Ellipsis of Silicon Valley. [(informal) Originally, the region of the San Francisco Bay Area in which there are a high number of industries producing silicon chips; later extended to mean the entire concentration of high-tech businesses in this area.]
verb
- (intransitive, poetic, rare) To form the shape of a valley.
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Examples of "valley" in Sentences
- The districts correspond the river valleys.
- The districts correspond the the river valleys.
- At the heart of the township is the Valley River.
- Any streams in a valley are buried by the overburden.
- The band relates to the fertile valley and the river.
- It lies in the Maurienne, the valley of the River Arc.
- Hungerford is on the River Dun in the Kennet Valley at.
- All the hills are drenched with sunshine, all the valleys.
- It lies at an elevation of, in the valley of the Frenchman River.
- Golden Valley is a sneak peek offered to the beauty of the hills.
- The whole Ottawa valley is an earthquake zone but has never had one.
- I would guess the valley is a good ten degrees celcius colder that Guadalajara at 5,000 feet.
- The ranchers feel like the valley is theirs because they paid for it, many of them with their lives, and those that survived, with their youth.
- As mentioned then, opposite Banz on the other side of the Main valley is the famous Shrine of the Fourteen Holy Helpers - Vierzehnheiligen - which we visit today.
- Similarly, a valley is a pretty sophisticated thing, but not as sophisticated as the laws of geology that are able to form it, or the physics that permits the geology, and so on.
- But the term valley would convey an erroneous idea, since the space between these two dominant ranges is filled with numerous cross chains, making the mountain character predominant, while the valleys are exceptional.
- Due to the amount of wetlands, as lagoons, marshes, swamps, and mangroves to the coast, and its location in the northernmost part of the continent, the valley is the place of arrival of many migratory species of birds of prey, waterfowl, and songbirds during the northern winters.
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