cwm
Americannoun
noun
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(in Wales) a valley
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geology another name for cirque
Etymology
Origin of cwm
1850–55; < Welsh: valley. See combe
Vocabulary lists containing cwm
Example Sentences
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With careful negotiation and navigation through the crevasse fields within the cwm we will collect snow samples at the surface and subsurface as well as make reflectivity measurements using a handheld spectrometer.
From Scientific American • Apr. 7, 2014
Bingley visited this cwm at the close of last century, and gives a good description of it.
From Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland by Hart, H. C.
All our deeper hollows are called the same at home, and even the Welsh have the word, but they spell it cwm; it is their mountain way.
From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire
There was the mysterious cwm lying in cold shadow long after the sun warmed me!
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Howard-Bury, Charles Kenneth
I believe the whole compound is the Cornish Pen y cwm gwic, ‘Head of the creek valley.’
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
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