Glen Definition

glĕn
glens
noun
A narrow, secluded valley.
Webster's New World

A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.

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pronoun

A Scottish habitational surname​ for someone who lives in a valley.

Wiktionary
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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Other Word Forms of Glen

Noun

Singular:
glen
Plural:
glens

Origin of Glen

  • Middle English from Scottish Gaelic gleann from Old Irish glenn

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Scottish Gaelic gleann (“mountain valley”).

    From Wiktionary

Glen Sentence Examples

  • His character was therefore lost in the glen.

  • Outside the lower end of each large transverse glen there is a scree of sedimentary matter.

  • A glen is a narrower and steeper-sided valley than a strath, though the names have not always been applied with discrimination.

  • Physically, Scotland is divided into three geographical regions - the " Highlands " (subdivided by Glen More into the NorthWestern and South-Eastern Highlands); the Central Plain or " Lowlands " (a tract of south-westerly to north-easterly trend, between a line drawn roughly from Girvan to Dunbar and a line drawn from Dumbarton to Stonehaven); and the Southern Uplands.

  • The longitudinal valleys, which run in the same general direction as the ridges - that is, north-east and south-west--have had their trend defined by geological structure, such as a line of dislocation (the Great Glen), or the plications of the rocks (Lochs Ericht, Tay and Awe, and most of the sea lochs of Argyllshire).

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