glen
/ɡlɛn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.87 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.
name
A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic for someone who lives in a valley.
name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
name
A river in England, mainly in Lincolnshire.
name
A number of places in the United States:
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A number of places in the United States:
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "In the glens of the hills about Strathsporran are many noble and nimble stags. But I have never set foot in my house there, for it is carpeted throughout with the tartan of my clan."
- "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."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: glen, gleann, *glendos, *glend-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡlɛn/
- British English: /ɡlɛn/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Aeroglen
Ardglen
Glenaire
Glenaladale
Glenalbyn
Glenalmond
Glenalta
Glenarbon
Glenaroua
Glenaubyn
Glenaven
Glenbar