OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7088

valley

/ˈvæli/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
valle
An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.
The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.
[I]t sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and water-courses…
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