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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A valley, often coursed by a stream; a dale.
  2. interj. Used to express leave-taking or farewell.
  3. n. A farewell.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A tract of low ground between hills; a valley: little used except in poetry. See valley.
  2. n. A little trough or canal: as, a pump-vale to carry off the water from a ship's pump. Synonyms Dale, etc. See valley.
  3. n. See vail.
  4. Farewell; adieu. Also used substantively.

Wiktionary

  1. n. valley
  2. interj. farewell

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.
  2. n. See 2d vail, 3.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. From Latin valē, singular imperative of valeō ("be well"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French val, from Latin vallēs; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.Latin valē, sing. imperative of valēre, to be strong or well; see wal- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “But if he is wise he will, as Milton also did, make it up again, and get the most that he can from his stony-hearted stepmother before the time comes for him to bid her his _Vale vale et aeternum vale_.”

    Obiter Dicta Second Series

  • “Now to return to the youth in the corner: _Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit_, Jemmy keep your money, or give it to the priest to keep, and it will be safest; but by no means let the Hyblean honey of the schoolmaster's blarney deprive you of it, otherwise it will be a _vale, vale, longum vale_ between you.”

    The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three

  • “Among them were a dozen stoic fighters from the New York Underground Combat League, the rules of which are summarized by the phrase "vale tudo," Portuguese for "anything goes.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “To add to the confusion, the word "vale" is used to mean a dozen things in Spain, including good, ok, yes, etc.”

    Vale

  • “The poet in Keats informs his being a prose writer of genius, as when he delights in the word vale (which appears in the opening line of Hyperion):”

    Keats's Afterlife

  • “Hola, quote. .vale comes from the word valorIt's not worth much, It's cheap, That stock is valueless, etc.”

    Vale

  • “Of a gentle shepherd maiden, dwelling in Italian vale,”

    The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon

  • “Ffrom Hungerford to Newbury in Barkshire 7 mile all very deep way, 15 mile thence to Reading in Barkshire flatt way, but ye vale is heavy sand for 3 or 4 mile.”

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary

  • “Marcus Grapp, who had the start of Luclarion in this "meander," -- as their father called the vale of tears, -- by just two years 'time, and was y-_clipped_, by everybody but his mother "Mark," -- in his turn, as they grew old together, cut his sister down to "Luke.”

    Real Folks

  • “’Tis though the vale is paved with musk and ambergris”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

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