Meaning

1 senses
  1. (poetic)A valley.

More definitions
  • a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Without music the world is a vale of tears.

    deOhne Musik ist die Welt ein Jammertal.

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  2. Knowest thou whence thou comest through the forest vale?

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  3. "Nor yet proud Ilion nor her towers had stood; / in lowly vales sequestered they abode."

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  4. The Purbeck beds follow the line of the Jurassic outcrop from Dorsetshire, through the Vale of Wardour, Swindon, Garsington, Brill and Aylesbury.

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Origin

From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles. Displ

From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles. Displaced native Old English dell.

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Forms

plural: vales
Singularvale
Pluralvales

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river:valley

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words
RelatedvalleyA2
Derivedvaleward

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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