valley

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Between the marsh and the mountains which wall the valley is a respectable strip of fertile land; at the end of the valley, toward Dan, as much as half the land is solid and fertile, and watered by Jordan's sources.

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  1. noun An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.
  2. noun An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.
  3. noun A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.

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  • Against him at the opening of the valley was the army of the League, numbering some thirty-five thousand men, of whom three fourths were supplied by Venice, the rest by Lodovico Sforza and the German emperor. —  New Italian sketches
  • On the western extremity of the valley was the Col, or gap through which the road passed to Sebastopol. —  The Three Commanders
  • Instead of finding protection, the valley was again laid waste, the houses and improvements were destroyed by fire, and the country plundered. —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
  • She had never dreamed that their valley was actually a rift in the rocks of the Sahara, that ocean of sand which travels on and on to infinity They had stood side by side on its high ridge, with their eyes looking towards the plain below, the historic plain which once held the capital of the world. —  There was a King in Egypt
  • "In a year or two this valley will be the pleasure-ground of all the countryside, a hundred miles around. —  Aladdin ; Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
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  1. Middle English valey, from Old French valee, from Vulgar Latin *vallāta, from Latin vallēs; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also vallie; from Middle English valey, valeye, valaye, vale = Middle Dutch valleye, valey, Dutch vallei, from Old French valee, French vallée (= Italian vallata), a valley, vale, from val, a vale, from Latin vallis, valles, a vale: see vale. The Roman forms were prob. confused with Middle Latin vallata, feminine also vallatum, n., a ditch, a place surrounded by a ditch, from Latin vallatus, past participle of vallare, surround with a rampart or intrenchment: see vallate.
 

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