cwmn.

Brit.

/kʊm/, U.S.

/kʊm/, Welsh English

/kʊm/

Etymology: < Welsh cwm (compare coomb n.²).

Geology.

A valley; in Physical Geography, a bowl-shaped hollow partly enclosed by steep walls lying at the head of a valley or on a mountain slope and formed originally by a glacier; a cirque.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > natural amphitheatre

amphitheatre1613

theatre1652

circus1836

cwm1853

cirque1874

kar1893

1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth I. vii. 170 Some ‘Cwm’, or hollow.

1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iii. ii. ii. 407 Several hundred feet below, in the corrie or cwm at the bottom, lies the re-cemented glacier.

1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 82 202 The snow-patches are cwm-ice masses occupying deep scallops in an elevated position of the old erosion-surface.

1936 Nature 19 Dec. 1041/2 Its glaciers..widened their heads into cwms and gave to the basin its only fiord.

1951 Times 27 Nov. 5/7 While ‘cwm’ may occur..purely as a place-name..technically the word is restricted to the huge cauldron-shaped hollows found high up on heavily glaciated slopes.

1953 J. Hunt Ascent of Everest ii. 14 When Mallory saw it..in 1921, he named it the ‘Western Cwm’.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 59 Such amphitheaters are called cirques in the French-speaking parts of the Alps, Kars in the German-speaking regions, cwms in Wales, and corries in Scotland. All four terms have achieved some degree of international usage, but the first seems to have been the most widely employed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	cwm
释义	cwmn. Brit. /kʊm/, U.S. /kʊm/, Welsh English /kʊm/ Etymology: < Welsh cwm (compare coomb n.²). Geology. A valley; in Physical Geography, a bowl-shaped hollow partly enclosed by steep walls lying at the head of a valley or on a mountain slope and formed originally by a glacier; a cirque. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > natural amphitheatre amphitheatre1613 theatre1652 circus1836 cwm1853 cirque1874 kar1893 1853 E. C. Gaskell Ruth I. vii. 170 Some ‘Cwm’, or hollow. 1882 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iii. ii. ii. 407 Several hundred feet below, in the corrie or cwm at the bottom, lies the re-cemented glacier. 1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 82 202 The snow-patches are cwm-ice masses occupying deep scallops in an elevated position of the old erosion-surface. 1936 Nature 19 Dec. 1041/2 Its glaciers..widened their heads into cwms and gave to the basin its only fiord. 1951 Times 27 Nov. 5/7 While ‘cwm’ may occur..purely as a place-name..technically the word is restricted to the huge cauldron-shaped hollows found high up on heavily glaciated slopes. 1953 J. Hunt Ascent of Everest ii. 14 When Mallory saw it..in 1921, he named it the ‘Western Cwm’. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 59 Such amphitheaters are called cirques in the French-speaking parts of the Alps, Kars in the German-speaking regions, cwms in Wales, and corries in Scotland. All four terms have achieved some degree of international usage, but the first seems to have been the most widely employed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1853
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