From Middle English valey, valeye, from Anglo-Norman valey, Old French valee (compare French vallée), from Latin vallēs/vallis.

• (RP, America) enPR: văl'ē, IPA: /ˈvæli/

valley

1. An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often garnished with a river flowing through it.

   Synonyms: dale, vale, Thesaurus:valley

   The Indus River valley was the site of an ancient civilization.

2. An area which drains itself into a river.
3. Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

• levée

• dale
• dell
• glen
• strath
• vale

• French: vallée, val
• German: Senke, Tal
• Italian: valle, vallata
• Portuguese: vale, entremontes
• Russian: доли́на
• Spanish: valle

valley (valleys, present participle valleying; simple past and past participle valleyed)

1. (intransitive, poetic, rare) To form the shape of a valley.
   • 1879, George Meredith, chapter XVIII, in The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative. […], volume I, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC ↗, page 323 ↗:

     These hues of red rose and green and pale green, ruffled and pouted in the billowy white of the dress ballooning and valleying softly, like a yacht before the sail bends low; […]

1. (countable) Surname.

   Synonyms: Vallee

2. A placename:
   1. A community in Colchester, Nova Scotia.
   2. A city in Chambers County, Alabama, on the Georgia state line.
   3. A city in Nebraska, USA.
   4. A number of townships in the USA, listed under Valley Township.
   5. A village/and/wcomm in Anglesey (OS grid ref SH2979).

1. Ellipsis of San Fernando Valley a valley of southern California.
2. Ellipsis of Silicon Valley