Shenandoah Valley
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6.7
- proper noun
- /ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə ˈvæli/
:
Valle de Shenandoah
- The enemy in heavy force is advancing up the Shenandoah Valley.
- the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
- armies in the Shenandoah Valley
Examples
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Good food and wine from the Shenandoah Valley revived me a little, and I tried to enjoy the moment without thinking about tomorrow.
Fiction book (1990) -
The incident of the dumpster-bound registration forms occurred in Harrisonburg, in the Shenandoah Valley.
Blog text (34) -
Enemy in heavy force is advancing up the Shenandoah Valley
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Beyond the peak lay the plunge down into the Shenandoah Valley.
Fiction book (1990) -
Five years later, the Civil War began closing in on the Shenandoah Valley, the place that was home to the military school my father had sent me when he became a general in the Confederate Army.
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She came from old money in the Shenandoah Valley, which was why I assumed she was able to afford living here.
Fiction book (1990) -
I bought it at Crabill's Meats in Tom's Brook in the Shenandoah Valley.
Blog text (26) -
While I'm taking the main army south towards Richmond, I'm sending General Sigel west to the Shenandoah Valley, Lee's breadbasket.
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Confederate troops got much of their food from the Shenandoah Valley.
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Union forces had marched up the Shenandoah Valley, hoping to cut the Virginia Central railroad, a key supply line.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Shenandoah + valley
This is a toponym formed from a proper name + the noun 'valley', so a learner who knows the constituents will understand it generically as 'the valley called Shenandoah'. Specific geographic location or historical significance cannot be derived from the words alone, but the basic referential meaning (a valley named Shenandoah) is directly compositional and therefore transparent.
Etymology
Shenandoah Valley: One popular story says the name Shenandoah comes from a Native American word that people say means 'daughter of the stars', giving a clear, poetic picture. So Shenandoah Valley is the valley named for that lovely image, which helps explain why people think of it as a beautiful place in northern Virginia.