glen
/ɡlɛn
/noun
A narrow valley, especially in Scotland or Ireland.The choice of venue - Glasgow, the road junction for Gaelic immigration from the Highlands of Scotland and the glens of Ireland - is also significant....
- The Slieve Blooms full of hidden glens and valleys and lakes and have a certain magic that draws not only the tourists but also the locals back again and again.
- And you can see why, because the tiny island has the lot - mountains, rugged coastline, beaches, open moorland and wooded glens.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Scottish Gaelic and Irish gleann (earlier glenn).
Rhymes
- country singer
- country store
- country-style
- country sugar
- country talk
- country town
- countryward
- country-western
- countrywide
- countrywoman
- count sheep
- countship
- count someone in
- count someone out
- count something on the fingers of one hand
- count something out
- count the cost
- count the days (or hours)
- count the pennies
- county
- county alderman
- county asylum
- county ball
- county borough
- county clerk