strath

American  

[strath, strahth] / stræθ, strɑθ /

noun

Scot.

1. a wide valley.

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strath British  

/ stræθ /

noun

1. a broad flat river valley

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Etymology

Origin of strath

1530–40; < Irish, Scots Gaelic srath; akin to stratum

Example Sentences

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strath

But the weak and less vigorous loadstones, enfeebled by the flow of humours, are visible in every region, in every strath.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert

The Isle of Flowers was very lovely now, and the valley— “Oh?” cried Annie, in raptures, as she gazed down the verdant strath.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables

Having crossed a well wooded strath, we reached a little crystal river, whose margin was trampled down with the spoor of a great variety of heavy game, but especially of buffalo and rhinoceros.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

There is not a district in Skye but has its great man, who forms the subject of conversation round the peat fire when the winter winds are blowing down the strath.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes

But no modern name remains near the Cat-stane to identify the name of "the fair or white strath."

From Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 by John Stuart