glen

Examples

• All

• In a wooded glen not far away, some wandering minstrels have set up camp.

  Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)

• Halfway down the glen, the dogs came loping up to greet them.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Somewhere in this glen, by this pool.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Now, we'll cut through to the glen a mile south.

  Snow White (2025)

• The family has lived in this glen for centuries.

  Dog Soldiers (2002)

• At the cottage in the glen.

  Sleeping Beauty (1959)

• Observing a holy silence, he led them back up the glen.

  Fiction book (1999)

• While my parents were attending the celebration, I decided to go swimming in the lake beyond the glen.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Josephine assumed she'd find the shrine in a wooded glen down a private road.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The family has lived in this glen for centuries.

Synonyms

V

valley

vsglen

∞ 1.0

A low area of land between hills or mountains often with a river running through it

is narrower and more secluded usually in mountainous regions

D

dale

vsglen

3 8.2

A wide open valley between gentle hills

is narrower and secluded often in mountains rather than open hills

Compounds

G

Glen Canyon Dam

1 6.0

A large dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona that forms Lake Powell

How Narrow

gorge

32 5.3

glen

8 7.9

valley

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology