vale
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- noun
- /veɪl/
- Archaic
- The formerly wide vale had compressed into this ravine in a remarkably short period.
- the vale of tears
- the vale of soul-making
- villages in the vale
Examples
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"I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills."
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To begin with, Par was a native of the Vale and accepted in a way that Walker never could be.
Fiction book (1991) -
* Oh, come to the church In the vale *
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I thought that you might return to the Vale, and so placed your parents under my protection.
Fiction book (1991) -
Now in the lead, he rushed down a rocky vale that lay between them and the road.
Fiction book (1992) -
Walton and Safdie chose for their site a small vale headed by a mineral spring.
Academic text (2011) -
Its subject mountains their unearthly forms. Pile around it, ice and rock; broad vales between.
Academic text (2016) -
I begin with an idyll, the well of renewal, the myth of the vale as yet untainted.
Academic text (1998) -
¶ Soft the drowsy hours are creeping ¶ ¶ Hill and vale in slumber sleeping ¶
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The small village lay nestled in a green vale, with a river flowing gently through it.
Synonyms
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A low area of land between hills or mountains often with a river running through it
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Etymology
Vale comes from the old Latin word vallis meaning 'valley', and it is the same root as the everyday word valley. So a vale is simply a poetic way to say a long, low area of land, often with a river running through it.