val|ley

val|ley
val|ley «VAL ee», noun, plural -leys.
1. lowland between hills or mountains and usually having a river or stream flowing along its bottom. SYNONYM(S): vale, dale, glen, dell.
2. a wide region of generally flat, low country drained by a great river system: »

the Mississippi Valley.

3. any hollow or structure like a valley, especially a trough between waves.
4. Figurative. a place or condition marked by depression, darkness, or sorrow: »

a valley of tears. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil (Psalms 23:4).

5. Architecture. a depression formed by the meeting of two sloping sides of a roof, or a roof and a wall; gutter.
╂[< Old French valee, earlier vallede < val vale1 < Latin vallis]
–val´ley|like´, adjective.

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