valleyn.
/ˈvali/, U.S. /ˈvæli/ 1.
a. A long depression or hollow lying between hills or stretches of high ground and usually having a river or stream flowing along its bottom.In ordinary use a valley is distinguished from a vale by having less width and a steeper slope on either side.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun]
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vall?1611
droke1772
glen1843
nant1862
draw1864
laagte1868
α.
β. 1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell 253 Goats; their keeper ought for to be..bolde, for to go with them through vallies.1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. x. 169 Plants, & Vegetalls for the most part prosper best in the vallies and plaines.1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxxvi. 461 Believe not me but your self..that these Vallies are watered from above.1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 65/1 Hills..with..little Vallies between.., and very difficult of access thro' the narrow passes of the Vallies.1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal ii The verdant banks of the river, with the Indian corn in the vallies.1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. i. 18 In the little vallies, which..occurred at every mile of their progress.1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. iii. 49 A faint, blueish mist prevented the eye from penetrating into the deeper vallies.1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1277 Þo he com nei kaunterburi In a valeie biside He sei þe emperours ost.
c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4796 For hilles and valeis sal turned be In-til playn, and made even to se.
a1400 Guy Warw. 3876 Smerteliche he dede him in þe ways, Ouer þe dounes & þe valeys.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 4 In-till þe wod soyn enterit he, And held doun toward a vale, Quhar throu þe vod a vattir ran.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xv. 56 The reyne russhynge doun from the mountaynes descended in to the valeyes.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xiii. 195 He shewde hym the valey be the wode side.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke iii. 5 Euery valley shalbe fylled, and euery mountayne & hyll shalbe brought lowe.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 44v Choose suche a valley, where the water can neither lye long, nor runne away to fast.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. i. 205 We are not (Sir) nor are we like to be: The Starres (I see) will kisse the Valleyes first. View more context for this quotation
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ii. 18 Our new Guide..crost another River, and enter'd into a large Valley of the fattest Land I did ever take notice of.
1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere II. i. xvi. 172 To trace our river up the valley from whence it issues, and examine how far it's banks were inhabited.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. iii. 80 As they advanced, the valley opened.
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul Introd. 37 We marched up the valley, which became narrower as we advanced.
1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 247 They cannot be of large extent, as the valleys are all narrow, and without bottoms on either side.
b. Const. of (the distinctive name of the valley).
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c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 5/148 Ase he in þe ualeye of Ebron leouede with teone and wo.
13.. K. Alis. 7027 And in þe valey of Jurdan, Þey founden eddren mony on.
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 405 Wheþer þat Crist shal come into þe valey of Josaphath or [etc.].
c1420 Wyntoun Cron. i. 73 In þe feild of Damask faire..Or in a walle of Ebron.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lix. 6 I wil deuyde Sichem, & mete out the valley of Suchoth.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxxxiv. 6 Who passing through the valley of Baca, make it a well. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 404 The pleasant Vally of Hinnom. View more context for this quotation
1726 A. Gordon Itinerarium Septentrionale 55 That eminent Ground, which bounds the Valley of Kilsyth to the Southward.
1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 305 The valley of Kingsclere,..in Berkshire, is about five miles long and two in breadth.
c. Without article.
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1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 688 Thai maid To rype the wood, bath wala, slonk and slaid.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 116 Sweet interchange Of Hill and Vallie, Rivers, Woods and Plaines. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 322 A spacious map Of hill and valley interpos'd between.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 14 Out of town and valley came a noise.
1865 H. H. Dixon Field & Fern: South 233 Wood and valley backed up by a Cheviot hill compose a pleasant landscape.
d. The extensive stretch of flattish country drained or watered by one or other of the larger river-systems of the world.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > land near river > [noun] > catchment area
valleyc1790
basin1804
river basin1824
watershed1839
catchment1844
catchment basin1844
drainage1866
gathering-ground1877
drainage-basin1882
catchment area2001
c1790 Encycl. Brit. VI. 393/2 In those early ages..a certain people descended from the mountains near the cataracts into the valley overflowed by the Nile.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 472/1 Dividing the valley of the Euphrates from the rivers which flow into the Black Sea.
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 223/2 Surface ‘drift’ deposits.. occur..in the valley of the Amazon westward to..Peru.
e. Geology. (See quot. 1839.)
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1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 305 Dr. Buckland on Valleys of Elevation.
1839 G. Roberts Dict. Geol. Valleys of elevation, those which seem to have originated in a fracture of the strata, and a movement of the fractured part upwards.
2.
a. In figurative uses. valley of the shadow (of death): see shadow n. 1b.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [noun]
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ermtheOE
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unwealsomeness1382
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ill liking?a1400
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caitifnessc1400
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caitifdoma1500
woefulnessa1513
misery1527
miserity1533
mishappinessa1542
unwealfulnessa1555
tribulance1575
miserableness1613
agony1621
desolatenessa1626
unblissa1628
unhappiness1722
misère1791
shadow1855
valley1882
miz1918
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxii. 1 The charge of the valey of viseoun.
1411–2 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 4444 The swete venym of his tonge gydeth His lord vnto þe valeie of dirknesse.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 17447 I was engendryd fyrst in helle;..in that Valey Infernal I was begete.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 244 Youth has a sprightliness and fire to boast, That in the valley of decline are lost.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Triumph of Life in Posthumous Poems (1824) 89 If..Thou comest from the realm without a name, Into this valley of perpetual dream.
1851 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1864) 2nd Ser. i. 18 You must be content with the quiet valleys of existence.
1882 J. Parker Apostolic Life I. 78 Thou knowest how much we are in the valley, and how often we pass through dark places.
b. valley of tears n. see vale n.1 2b.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [noun] > this world as place of misery
valley of tearsa1400
vale14..
1382 J. Wyclif Psalms lxxxiii. 6 In the valei of teris, in the place that he sette.]
a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 51 To the we syȝen gronynge and wepynge in this ualeye of teeres.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xxiii. 92 In þis valey of teres þere comeþ many euell þinges.
1894 J. H. S. (title) The Valley of Tears... The Consolations of God.
3. transferred.
a. A depression or hollow suggestive of a valley; esp. a trough between sea-waves.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > [noun] > trough
sulka1586
valleya1616
trougha1625
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. iii. 101 His Fore-head, nay, the Valley, The pretty dimples of his Chin, and Cheeke. View more context for this quotation
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 180 The Eyes are sunk in a convenient Valley.
1845 P. H. Gosse Ocean (1849) iv. 164 The little Petrel flits hither and thither, now treading the brow of the watery hill, now sweeping through the valley.
1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow iii. iv. 176 The Good Hope swooped dizzily down into the valley of the rollers.
b. spec. A region of a graph which is shaped like a valley, or a set of low values of a varying quantity which would form such a region if plotted as a graph.
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the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph > part of
peak1785
flatline1867
tail1895
upper bound1917
valley1935
trough1938
skirt1940
shoulder1956
spike1961
1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans ix. 267 Our picture of the human species will be like a contour-map, a region of high frequency for, say, round-headedness being separated from another similar peak by a ‘valley’ of low frequency.
1959 Daily Tel. 11 Dec. 1/1 A prompt decision by the Government is urged, that the age can be compulsorily raised in one of the three ‘valley’ years between ‘bulges’ in the number of children, 1966, 1967 and 1968.
1968 F. B. Morinigo tr. H. von Buttlar Nucl. Physics xiii. 103 Nuclei that can decay in two ways..are always odd-odd nuclei and lie near the bottom of the valley of stability.
1973 Physics Bull. Apr. 239/1 The spectrometer is claimed to provide..high resolution analysis. Its resolution is more than 10,000 with a 10% valley.
1974 P. R. Adby & M. A. H. Dempster Introd. Optimization Methods i. 16 Long curved narrow valleys are especially troublesome to simpler optimization procedures.
4. technical.
a. The depressed angle formed by the meeting (at the bottom) of two sloping sides of a composite roof, or by the slope of a roof and a wall; a gutter.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > valley or groove
valley1690
cullis1838
swept valley1926
laced valley1929
1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 901 The Bricklayer sometimes will require to have running measure for Hyps and Valleys.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 162 Of measuring Vallies, or Gutters in Tiling.
1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 360 In like manner the two conductors from the chimnies A and C united in the valley of the roof between them.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §83 To steady and support the lower edges of slates finishing against vallies.
1866 W. J. Fitzpatrick Sham Squire 113 Murphy hurried Lord Edward to the roof of the warehouse, and with some difficulty persuaded him to lie in the valley.
1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. xii. 175 Here also are some quaint old slated houses; the valleys are not leaded.
b. A tile used in roofing a valley.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > for roofing > for valley
gutter-tile1477
valley1833
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §296 The ridge pieces, hips, and valleys, to be seven inches by one and a half inches.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [noun] > centre party
valley1792
plain1797
centre1819
1792 Pref. Expl. New Terms in Ann. Reg. p. xii The Valley. The lower seats; and these in the middle of the hall of the Assembly.
6. Anatomy. (See quots. and cf. vallecula n. 1.)
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the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [noun] > fissure
anfractuosity1687
Sylvian fissure1828
sulcus1833
Rolando1839
valley1839
subfissure1889
subgyre1889
1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 688/2 A deep fissure which proceeds..backwards along the median line..is called the valley.
1842 Encycl. Brit. II. 807/2 A large hollow between the hemispheres [of the cerebellum]..is the small valley (vallecula) of Halley.
Compounds
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a.
(a) attributive and in other combinations in sense 1 (frequently denoting ‘situated in a valley’).
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valley-bottom n.
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1863 B. Taylor Hannah Thurston xxix. 373 The elms..had grown up since the valley-bottom was cleared.
1905 A. R. Wallace My Life II. 153 The little valley-bottoms were complete flower gardens.
valley-cottage n.
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1859 G. Meredith Poet. Wks. (1912) 92 For me yon valley-cottage beckons warm.
valley-dweller n.
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1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure Peasants & Potters iii. 37 It [sc. the wild ass] was certainly tamed by the Libyans..from whom it reached the valley-dwellers not long after 4000 b.c.
valley-fountain n.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cliii. sig. I4v In a could vallie-fountaine . View more context for this quotation
valley-gate n.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xxvi. 9 Osias buylded towres..vpon the cornerporte, and on the valley gate.
valley-glacier n.
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1877 J. Geikie Great Ice Age (ed. 2) xxv. 459 All the mountain tracts, and even some of the less considerable hill ranges, appear to have nourished local or valley glaciers.
valley-glade n.
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1820 J. Keats Ode to Nightingale in Lamia & Other Poems 112 Now 'tis buried deep In the next valley-glades.
valley-gravel n.
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1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography ii. 28 Along the banks of the Thames and its tributary streams there is a bed of valley-gravel.
valley head n.
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1894 Geol. Mag. Oct. 466 The amphitheatre form of terraced land is always a valley head.
valley-hill n.
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1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (Boston ed.) II. iii. 253 The valley-hills That in the rear of Sparta northwards rise aloft.
valley-maker n.
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1894 Geol. Mag. Oct. 466 The outflow of the stream—the valley-maker—marks ordinarily the base of the amphitheatre.
valley-mist n.
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1930 E. Blunden Summer's Fancy 35 Groves crouched in the deep Of valley-mist.
valley-mouth n.
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1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 188 The trees of the Lobo dark valley-mouth.
valley people n.
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1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. iii. 18 Contrariwise the valley people..are ever heavy spirited, dull and sickly.
valley-plain n.
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1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 363 The four great valley-plains..divided by lateral spurs.
valley-road n.
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1876 T. Hardy Hand of Ethelberta II. xxxiii. 64 A thin young man..who arrived at the castle by the valley-road from Knollsea.
valley-side n.
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1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 1v I walkit furth on be ane valay syde.
1859 J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire iii. xii. 578 Up the cliffs of the valley-sides Moses encamped between Migdol and the sea.
valley-stream n.
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1841 W. C. Bryant Walk at Sunset in Wks. 44 Oh, let me, by the crystal valley-stream, Wander.
valley-streamlet n.
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1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 89 Joining then the valley-streamlet.
valley-tomb n.
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1930 E. Blunden Poems 290 Cause not our very joy to go Among old valley-tombs of flesh and blood and years.
valley-wall n.
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1931 H. Crane Let. 21 Sept. (1965) 381 With the high valley walls in the Wizard's circle.
1974Valley wall [see valley train n. at Compounds 1a(b)]. valley-way n.
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1883 Science 1 326/1 These lakes are perhaps formed by a local depression of the valley-way.
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valley-like adj.
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1852 H. D. Thoreau Let. 13 July in Corr. (1958) 283 The vast valley-like ‘spore’..of some celestial beast.
1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 172 A solitary moorland with valley-like undulations.
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valley-ward n. (also valley-wards)
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1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xxxv. 387 He went swinging along valleywards again.
1894 Book News Mar. 274 Dark belts of woodland, with valleyward the white gleam of the Froom.
1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. i. 10 Native inhabitants..survived and came to terms, attracted valleywards by force or by superior agricultural technique.
(b)
valley fever n. U.S. = coccidioidomycosis n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by fungus or parasite
pneumotyphus1846
pneumonomycosis1875
pneumomycosis1890
psittacosis1896
aspergillosis1898
histoplasmosis1907
nocardiosis1907
parrot disease1908
torulosis1929
coccidioidomycosis1937
valley fever1938
ornithosis1939
farmer's lung1944
parrot fever1947
San Joaquin Valley fever1958
1937 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 3 July 66/1 The disease is often diagnosed as erythema nodosum and is popularly known as ‘San Joaquin Valley fever’ or desert fever.]
1938 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 8 Oct. 1362/2 It has been found that a symptom complex like that of the first of these patients is common in the San Joaquin Valley; so common, in fact, that it is popularly known as ‘valley fever’ or ‘desert fever’.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 1 d/3 He's already a full-fledged Arizonan because Homero is recovering from a bout with valley fever.
Valley Girl n. U.S. a teenage girl from San Fernando Valley in southern California; also = Valleyspeak n. below; also attributive.
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the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun]
daughterOE
maidenOE
young womanOE
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burdc1225
maidc1275
wenchc1290
file1303
virginc1330
girla1375
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young ladya1393
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young person1438
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quean1488
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Tib1533
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muggle1608
gixy1611
infanta1611
dilla1627
tittiea1628
whimsy1631
ladykin1632
stammel1639
moggie1648
zitellaa1660
baggagea1668
miss1668
baby1684
burdie1718
demoiselle1720
queanie?1800
intombi1809
muchacha1811
jilt1816
titter1819
ragazza1827
gouge1828
craft1829
meisie1838
sheila1839
sixteenc1840
chica1843
femme1846
muffin1854
gel1857
quail1859
kitten1870
bud1880
fräulein1883
sub-debutante1887
sweet-and-twenty1887
flapper1888
jelly1889
queen1894
chick1899
pusher1902
bit of fluff1903
chicklet1905
twist and twirl1905
twist1906
head1913
sub-deb1916
tabby1916
mouse1917
tittie1918
chickie1919
wren1920
bim1922
nifty1923
quiff1923
wimp1923
bride1924
job1927
junior miss1927
hag1932
tab1932
sort1933
palone1934
brush1941
knitting1943
teenybopper1966
weeny-bopper1972
Valley Girl1982
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > American English > varieties of
Midland1785
New England1839
Chicagoese1883
Bostonese1888
New Yorkese1888
Brooklynese1893
Western American1901
Manhattanese1908
Harlemese1928
southern1935
jive1938
Yinglish1951
lockjaw1965
Valley Girl1982
Valspeak1982
Valleyspeak1983
Yat1984
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > of varieties of English > American English
American1650
Anglo-American1810
salt river1828
Yankeea1854
Midland1873
New Yorkese1889
American English1892
Yinglish1953
Valley Girl1982
Yat1985
1982 Guardian 26 Oct. 8/7 The Valley Girl, well-heeled with time on her hands, suburban and middle-class, is, first and foremost, a consumer.
1982 Time 8 Nov. 91/1 Where is the next generation of slang to come from? Not from Valley Girl, the argot made famous lately by singer Frank Zappa and his daughter.
1983 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Aug. 11/1 The Brooklyn accent,..even California valley-girl slang—these are as much part of our linguistic heritage as computer jargon,..and words ending in gate.
1984 Daily Mail 20 Oct. 12/1 But the stilettoed, 10th-grade, ‘Valley Girls’, who stalk the West Coast Galleries..have been replaced by the Mall Girls.
Valleyspeak n. U.S. a form of slang originating among teenage girls in San Fernando Valley in southern California.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > American English > varieties of
Midland1785
New England1839
Chicagoese1883
Bostonese1888
New Yorkese1888
Brooklynese1893
Western American1901
Manhattanese1908
Harlemese1928
southern1935
jive1938
Yinglish1951
lockjaw1965
Valley Girl1982
Valspeak1982
Valleyspeak1983
Yat1984
1983 Washington Post 23 Jan. (Mag.) 8 ‘The creative act that doesn't respond to some kind of social need isn't going to be picked up.’ Clearly Valley-speak struck a responsive chord.
valley tan n. U.S. local a kind of whisky produced in Salt Lake Valley, Utah.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > whisky > [noun] > other whiskies
peat-reek1792
Monongahela1805
rye?1808
corn1820
small-still (whisky)1822
bald-face1840
corn-whiskey1843
raw1844
Bourbon1846
sod corn1857
valley tan1860
straight1862
forty-rod whisky1863
rock and rye1878
sour-mash1885
grain-whisky1887
forty rod lightning1889
Suntory1942
Wild Turkey1949
mash1961
pot still1994
1860 Mountaineer (Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory) 16 June 169/3 Which food do you prefer, rum, mixed drinks or Valley Tan?
1942 Oregon Hist. Q. Dec. 339 Only among his cronies could he crack a quart of valley tan..with any freedom.
valley train n. Physical Geography a deposit of glacial outwash along a valley bottom.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > deposited by water, ice, or wind > [noun] > glacial
trail1866
valley train1892
sandr1893
ice contact1896
postglacial1928
boulder-train1967
1892 Ann. Rep. State Geologist 1891 (Geol. Survey New Jersey) 96 The drift thus deposited in a valley has sometimes been called a valley train of sand and gravel.
1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. xv. 377 Study of the valley trains extending down from the Alps led Penck and Brückner to a recognition of four stages of glaciation.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 636/3 When confined within valley walls, the outwash deposit is known as a valley train.
b.
valley-lily n. the lily of the valley.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > lily of the valley
great park lily1538
May lily1548
lily of the valley1563
wood lily1563
liriconfancy1567
May blossoms1578
lily convally1597
valley-lily1597
wood-lily1597
lily-bell1729
vale-lily1823
lily cup1826
mugget1866
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 332 The flowers of the Valley Lillie.
a1767 M. Bruce Lochleven in Poems (1770) 70 Her breast was fairer than the vernal bloom Of valley-lily.
1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 10 Wild thyme, and valley-lilies whiter still Than Leda's love.
a1849 T. L. Beddoes Poems (1851) I. 201 The birthday hours Of the valley-lily.
valley of death tree n. the Upas-tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > sumacs > [noun]
buck's-horna1450
rhus?1541
sumac1548
Venice sumac1597
poisonwood1671
poison tree1676
swamp sumac1722
urushi1727
stag-horn1753
Venetian sumac1755
poison ash1757
ipoh1779
poison sumac1785
ailanthus tree1789
Japan varnish1789
vinegar-plant1797
mountain sumac1813
poison dogwood1814
upas1814
karee1815
fustet1821
taaibos1821
poison elder1822
varnish sumac1822
Japan lacquer1835
tree of heaven1845
anacard1847
smoke plant1856
tanners' sumac1858
swamp dogwood1859
smoke-tree1860
wax-tree1866
wig-sumac1867
wig-tree1867
burnwood1874
vinegar-tree1874
mountain manchineel1884
valley of death tree1888
sugar-bush1900
smoke bush1902
1888 in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VII.
C2. attributive in sense 4, as valley-board, valley-gutter, valley-piece, valley-rafter.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > bargeboards, etc.
wind-barge1603
waterbargea1613
barge-course1668
roll1810
valley-board1823
verge-board1827
siding1829
barge-board1833
verge1833
verge-boarding1835
parge-board1840
snowboard1876
hollow roll1904
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gutter > type of
valley-gutter1823
eaves-trough1851
trough gutter1856
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > roof-beam > rafter > others
hip1363
hip rafter1663
knee-rafter1679
sleeper1688
valley-piece1823
valley-rafter1823
binding-rafter1842
subprincipal1842
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 230 The valley-rafters of a roof.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §852 Proper valley boards are to be put for the lead valleys.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1350 A valley-gutter between two roofs.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1049 s.v. The rafter which supports the valley is called the valley rafter or valley piece, and the board fixed upon it for the leaden gutter to rest upon is called the valley board.
Derivatives
ˈvalleyful n. the fill of a valley.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills other specific things
sheetful?1530
streetful1595
rangeful1603
stringful1611
heavenful1637
hellful1637
skyful1645
gardenful1651
paperful1722
ropeful1726
notchful1733
breathful1815
cityful1826
forestful1832
worldful1835
treeful1837
spongeful1867
stackful1868
balloonful1870
fairful1872
socketful1872
valleyful1890
universeful1893
slingful1913
pawful1925
1890 Longman's Mag. July 341 A whole valleyful of appropriate plants.
ˈvalleyite n. an inhabitant of a valley.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller on low land > dweller in valley
valleyite1893
1893 Outing 22 136/1 While I roamed about the burying-place of the valleyites.
ˈvalleylet n. a small valley.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > small
dellc1220
hope1378
valleta1647
valleylet1866
1866 G. Greenwood Rain & Rivers 188 Its infinite ramification of stream and valley, streamlet and valleylet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
valleyv.
/ˈvali/, U.S. /ˈvæli/ rare.† 2. transitive. To adjoin as a valley. Obsolete. rare.
1. intransitive. To form a hollow or hollows resembling a valley.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (intransitive)] > curve concavely
valleya1552
sag1777
cup1830
hollow1862
saucer1925
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 42 A Peace of this Roke is fallen, and valleith [v.r. valleyeth] after a strange fascion.
1879 G. Meredith Egoist I. xviii. 323 In the billowy white of the dress ballooning and valleying softly.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [verb (transitive)] > adjoin as valley
valley1635
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 36 In a deep bottome that vallied a steeper precipice.
3. To make valleys in, to furrow.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > sail or cleave the water or sea
rideOE
furrowc1425
sheugh1513
sulcate1577
sulk1579
busk1747
navigate1795
valleya1849
a1849 T. L. Beddoes Poems (1851) I. 111 The slaves of Egypt..Vallied the unaccustomed sea.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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