Definitions for Valley

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Valley val·ley

Spelling: [val-ee]

IPA: /ˈvæl i/

Valley is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 64 anagrams from letters in Valley (aellvy).

Definitions for Valley

noun

1. an elongated depression between uplands, hills, or mountains, especially one following the course of a stream.
2. an extensive, more or less flat, and relatively low region drained by a great river system.
3. any depression or hollow resembling a valley.
4. a low point or interval in any process, representation, or situation.
5. any place, period, or situation that is filled with fear, gloom, foreboding, or the like:
6. Architecture. a depression or angle formed by the meeting of two inclined sides of a roof.
7. the lower phase of a horizontal wave motion.

Origin of Valley

1250-1300; Middle English valeie, valey Old French valee, equivalent to val vale¹ + -ee Latin -āta, feminine of -ātus -ate¹

Examples for Valley

Our escort, Hajji Zalwar Khan, is the chief elder in charge of the valley council.

But the people from valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me.

The tragedy America faced in that valley will always overshadow any other thoughts we have about the place.

Nothing was left her in the valley but the shadow, and the last weapon, All-prayer.

There was not enough food in the valley for both the old inhabitants and the newcomers.

We first met Hajji Zalwar Khan over tea and lunch in the Pech valley in a house clinging to a cliff high above the valley floor.

In an instant he was in his saddle and spurring down the valley.

As another elder in the valley put it—perhaps more succinctly—“emotions are for women.”

Looking around him, he at length, from the edge of the valley, descried Robert.

The battle was disastrous for the Egyptians and the valley of the Nile was open to the invaders.