glen
nounEtymology
From Middle English glen, borrowed from Irish gleann and Scottish Gaelic gleann, Old and Middle Irish glend, glenn (“mountain valley”), from Proto-Celtic *glendos (“valley”), hypothetically from Proto-Indo-European *glend- (“shore”) but the word may have been borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Compare Manx glion, Welsh glyn. Doublet of glyn.
Definitions
A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it
A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.
- What riches too, of gold and jewels, might not be hidden among those forest-shrouded glens and peaks? And beyond, and beyond again, ever new islands, new continents perhaps, an inexhaustible wealth of yet undiscovered worlds.
A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic for someone who lives in a valley.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Miller suffered a little when Glen Chapple and Mark Clinton came together but finished the spell with figures of five for 35 from 11 overs, mirroring the performances earlier when Chapple and Mahmood undermined the Warwickshire innings.
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A river in England, mainly in Lincolnshire.
A river in Northumberland, England, a tributary of the River Till.
A village in northern County Donegal, Ireland
A village in northern County Donegal, Ireland; in Irish An Gleann from gleann (“glen”).
A number of places in the United States
A number of places in the United States:
Ellipsis of Glen of Imaal Terrier.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for glen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA