glen

CEFRC1

/ɡlɛn/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A narrow valley, usually with trees and a stream.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

Examples

  • That glen was beautiful on a calm day.

  • "Shirley, my political stance is for a Multi-world Civilization." "Glen, you aim high!"

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic for someone who lives in a valley.

  2. A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

  • 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.

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Origin

noun

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.