Noun: valley
| Singular | valley |
| Plural | valleys |
Sample Sentences
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The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.
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[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 even as I have heard the carbonic acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do. [1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 144:]
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The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west. [1968, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, volumes 11-14, page vi:]
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Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys. [2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:]
Nouns inflected like valley
chimney,
honey,
attorney,
donkey,
galley,
monkey,
turkey,
pulley,
valley,
storey,
Etymology
From Middle English valeye, valey, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vallēs/vallis. Doublet of vlei and vly. Displaced native dene, from dene and partially displaced native dale, from dæl. See: Middle English Nouns '
valeye', French Nouns '
vallée', Latin Nouns '
vallēs'.