Definitions for valley
ˈvæl ival·ley

Princeton's WordNet(3.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. valley, vale(noun)

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

Wiktionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. valley(Noun)

   An elongated depression between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.

2. valley(Noun)

   The area which drains into a river.

3. valley(Noun)

   Any structure resembling one, e.g., the meeting point of two pitched roofs.

4. valley(Noun)

   The internal angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

Origin: vallée, valee, from valles/vallis

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Valley(noun)

   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

2. Valley(noun)

   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

3. Valley(noun)

   the depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof

Origin: [OE. vale, valeie, OF. vale, valede, F. valle, LL. vallata, L. vallis, valles. See Vale.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Valley

   In geology, a valley or dale is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge. The terms U-shaped and V-shaped are descriptive terms of geography to characterize the form of valleys. Most valleys belong to one of these two main types or a mixture of them, with respect of the cross section of the slopes or hillsides.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Valley

   val′i, n. a vale or low land between hills or mountains: a low, extended plain, usually watered by a river:—pl. Vall′eys. [O. Fr. valee (Fr. vallée)—val, a vale.]

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'valley' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2319

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'valley' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4489

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'valley' in Nouns Frequency: #897

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of valley in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of valley in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of valley in a Sentence

1. James Finberg:

   Google is not alone in Silicon Valley.

2. 'jubal' yinka popoola:

   break this mountain to fill that valley

3. ambassador chris:

   valley's days bracket God ways equals testimonies

4. W. H. Auden:

   Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

5. W. H. Auden:

   A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

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