glenn.¹

Brit.

/ɡlɛn/, U.S.

/ɡlɛn/

Forms: α. 1500s, 1700s glenne, 1700s glenn, 1500s– glen. β. 1500s glan. γ. 1500s–1600s plural glynnes; 1600s glin, 1600s–1700s glyn, 1700s glynn.

Etymology: < Gaelic gleann, earlier glenn, mountain-valley = Welsh glyn. The α-forms are of Scottish origin, having been adopted < Gaelic before the vowel of glenn was broken into ea. The form glan represents the Irish pronunciation of gleann, while glin is derived from the plural glinn, and was at first employed only in the plural glins; some examples of glyn, glin in 17–18th cent. represent the Welsh or the Cornish form. Until the middle of the 18th cent. the form glen occurs in English writers only as an echo of Spenser; the ‘Glosse’ to the Shepherd's Calendar by E. K. wrongly explains the word as ‘a country hamlet or borough’.

a. A mountain-valley, usually narrow and forming the course of a stream.At first applied to the narrow valleys of the mountainous districts in Scotland and Ireland, but now extended to similar places in other countries.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun]

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1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iv. 372 In a glen [1487 St. John's Cambr. vnder ane bra].

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 205 In till ane glen thow hes..Ane laithly luge.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) ii. 185 Thir Veanis laid ane strang garnisoun of armit men in secrete glennis to recountir the Fabis.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 26 But now from me hys madding mynd is starte, And woes the Widdowes daughter of the glenne.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 102 Be thir places of wildernes, bygates, kraigs and glenis.

1748 A. Philips Pastorals i. 79 Now left heiress of the glen she'll deem Me, landless lad, unworthy her esteem.

a1759 W. Collins in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. (1788) 1 ii. 75 I, perhaps, may tread Your lowly glens, o'erhung with spreading broom.

1773 S. Johnson Let. 21 Sept. in H. L. Piozzi Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) II. 131 About noon we came to a small glen, so they call a valley.

1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 403 The wilderness is theirs with all its caves, Its hollow glenns.

1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. i. 21 The valley, here contracted into a glen .

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xvi. 337 The Oeroe..flows through a narrow glen at the western foot of Cithaeron.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. iii. ii. 427 The Spaniards..suffering the wily enemy to draw them into a narrow glen or defile, intersected by a little stream of water.

β. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 180/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II They came to the side of a mounteine, where there was a glan, and in it a little groue of wood.γ. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 11 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Hee did shut them up within those narrow corners and glynnes under the mountaines foote.1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. xiv. 258 All these hee chargeth..to get..into the hils, and among the glins and woods, to bestow themselves close.1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 875/1 In the midst of Winter hee entred the glinnes, that is, the vallies of Leinster, a secure receptacle of the Rebels.1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 10 in Ess. Effects Motion Another great scope of land, which was divided from it but by a glin.17.. C. Littleton in C. A. Johns Week at Lizard (1848) 81 Another rotten moor brings you to a Glyn or narrow Valley.1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 1 This stream of wind..arose from a glin called Allgolan.1756 J. Home Douglas iii. i We found him lurking in the hollow glynn.?1764 J. Bush Hibernia Curiosa 72 The glyns, or dark vallies..of this country, are many of them remarkably beautiful.

b. Also attributive, designating check fabrics, esp. Glenurquhart n. check.

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the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [adjective] > tartan

tartan1533

plaided1746

glen1923

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > checked

tartan1533

plaided1746

glen1923

Tattersall1958

overchecked1969

1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 1 (advt.) Smartly tailor made Glen Check Tweed.

1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 1 (advt.) The new glen and plumage checks.

1967 ‘T. Wells’ What should you know of Dying? x. 115 A double-breasted glen plaid suit was his uniform of the day.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 218 Glen check. ‘Glen’ describes many check fabrics originally Scottish in design. It is similar to Shepherd's check but can be in any combination of colours and has a large overcheck.

Compounds

General attributive.

glen-boy n.

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1841 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland I. 186 We reached the pleasant and improving inn at Kenmare, and dismissed the glen-boy.

glen-full n.

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1859 M. Napier Mem. Life Visct. Dundee I. i. 45 That glen-full [Glencoe] of murdered Scotchmen!

glen-head n.

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1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 423 Sheep..ought to be allowed as much of the glenheads, breas, and foot of the hills, as will support them during the severity of the winter and spring months.

glen-man n.

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1880 E. C. Brewer Reader's Handbk. Allusions at Glencoe The massacre of M'Ian and thirty-eight of his glenmen.

Derivatives

ˈglenikin n. nonce-wd

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1835 Blackwood's Mag. 38 120 Every glen and glenikin had its river, or its stream, or its burn, or its rill.

ˈglenlet n. nonce-wd a little glen.

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1892 Good Words Apr. 239/1 A prettily wooded glenlet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	glen
释义	glenn.¹ Brit. /ɡlɛn/, U.S. /ɡlɛn/ Forms: α. 1500s, 1700s glenne, 1700s glenn, 1500s– glen. β. 1500s glan. γ. 1500s–1600s plural glynnes; 1600s glin, 1600s–1700s glyn, 1700s glynn. Etymology: < Gaelic gleann, earlier glenn, mountain-valley = Welsh glyn. The α-forms are of Scottish origin, having been adopted < Gaelic before the vowel of glenn was broken into ea. The form glan represents the Irish pronunciation of gleann, while glin is derived from the plural glinn, and was at first employed only in the plural glins; some examples of glyn, glin in 17–18th cent. represent the Welsh or the Cornish form. Until the middle of the 18th cent. the form glen occurs in English writers only as an echo of Spenser; the ‘Glosse’ to the Shepherd's Calendar by E. K. wrongly explains the word as ‘a country hamlet or borough’. a. A mountain-valley, usually narrow and forming the course of a stream.At first applied to the narrow valleys of the mountainous districts in Scotland and Ireland, but now extended to similar places in other countries. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] deanc825 dalec893 sladec893 bachea1000 valley1297 vall?1611 droke1772 glen1843 nant1862 draw1864 laagte1868 α. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iv. 372 In a glen [1487 St. John's Cambr. vnder ane bra]. a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 205 In till ane glen thow hes..Ane laithly luge. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) ii. 185 Thir Veanis laid ane strang garnisoun of armit men in secrete glennis to recountir the Fabis. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Apr. 26 But now from me hys madding mynd is starte, And woes the Widdowes daughter of the glenne. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 102 Be thir places of wildernes, bygates, kraigs and glenis. 1748 A. Philips Pastorals i. 79 Now left heiress of the glen she'll deem Me, landless lad, unworthy her esteem. a1759 W. Collins in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. (1788) 1 ii. 75 I, perhaps, may tread Your lowly glens, o'erhung with spreading broom. 1773 S. Johnson Let. 21 Sept. in H. L. Piozzi Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) II. 131 About noon we came to a small glen, so they call a valley. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 403 The wilderness is theirs with all its caves, Its hollow glenns. 1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice III. i. 21 The valley, here contracted into a glen . View more context for this quotation 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xvi. 337 The Oeroe..flows through a narrow glen at the western foot of Cithaeron. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. iii. ii. 427 The Spaniards..suffering the wily enemy to draw them into a narrow glen or defile, intersected by a little stream of water. β. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 180/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II They came to the side of a mounteine, where there was a glan, and in it a little groue of wood.γ. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 11 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Hee did shut them up within those narrow corners and glynnes under the mountaines foote.1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. xiv. 258 All these hee chargeth..to get..into the hils, and among the glins and woods, to bestow themselves close.1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 875/1 In the midst of Winter hee entred the glinnes, that is, the vallies of Leinster, a secure receptacle of the Rebels.1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 10 in Ess. Effects Motion Another great scope of land, which was divided from it but by a glin.17.. C. Littleton in C. A. Johns Week at Lizard (1848) 81 Another rotten moor brings you to a Glyn or narrow Valley.1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 1 This stream of wind..arose from a glin called Allgolan.1756 J. Home Douglas iii. i We found him lurking in the hollow glynn.?1764 J. Bush Hibernia Curiosa 72 The glyns, or dark vallies..of this country, are many of them remarkably beautiful. b. Also attributive, designating check fabrics, esp. Glenurquhart n. check. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [adjective] > tartan tartan1533 plaided1746 glen1923 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > checked tartan1533 plaided1746 glen1923 Tattersall1958 overchecked1969 1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 1 (advt.) Smartly tailor made Glen Check Tweed. 1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 1 (advt.) The new glen and plumage checks. 1967 ‘T. Wells’ What should you know of Dying? x. 115 A double-breasted glen plaid suit was his uniform of the day. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 218 Glen check. ‘Glen’ describes many check fabrics originally Scottish in design. It is similar to Shepherd's check but can be in any combination of colours and has a large overcheck. Compounds General attributive. glen-boy n. ΚΠ 1841 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland I. 186 We reached the pleasant and improving inn at Kenmare, and dismissed the glen-boy. glen-full n. ΚΠ 1859 M. Napier Mem. Life Visct. Dundee I. i. 45 That glen-full [Glencoe] of murdered Scotchmen! glen-head n. ΚΠ 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 423 Sheep..ought to be allowed as much of the glenheads, breas, and foot of the hills, as will support them during the severity of the winter and spring months. glen-man n. ΚΠ 1880 E. C. Brewer Reader's Handbk. Allusions at Glencoe The massacre of M'Ian and thirty-eight of his glenmen. Derivatives ˈglenikin n. nonce-wd ΚΠ 1835 Blackwood's Mag. 38 120 Every glen and glenikin had its river, or its stream, or its burn, or its rill. ˈglenlet n. nonce-wd a little glen. ΚΠ 1892 Good Words Apr. 239/1 A prettily wooded glenlet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). glenn.² Brit. /ɡlɛn/, U.S. /ɡlɛn/, Scottish English /ɡlɛn/ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: glen n.¹ Etymology: Specific sense development of glen n.¹The daffodil is so called on account of the fact that in Kilmarnock children used to go to the glen of Craufurdland Castle on the third Saturday in April, called ‘Glen Saturday’, to gather daffodils. Scottish. ‘A daffodil’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (ed. 3) 297 The wild lilies, or glens, of Craufurdland Castle. 1880 Jubilee W. O. Fenwick 3 The children..were..supplied each one with a large bouquet of glens. 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