cwm

[ koom ]

/ kum /

noun

cirque(def 1).

Nearby words

cvs, cvt, cw, cwa, cwlth, cwm, cwmbran, cwo, cwp, cwps, cws

Origin of cwm

1850–55; < Welsh: valley. See combe

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Examples from the Web for cwm

I was hoping to get away to the left and traverse into the cwm; that too quite hopeless.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
Further west there are several good gullies on the Cwm Glas side, especially round about the pinnacles.
Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II|W. P. Haskett Smith
Cwm Dyli was the scene in 1875 of one of the strangest of all the disasters which have happened on the mountain.
Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II|W. P. Haskett Smith
The Birmingham reservoir is to submerge several miles of this cwm and the two houses in which Shelley stayed.
Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II|W. P. Haskett Smith

So they proceeded to the place where was the Owl of Cwm Cawlwyd.
The Mabinogion|Lady Charlotte Guest

British Dictionary definitions for cwm

cwm

/ (kuːm) /

noun

(in Wales) a valley

geology another name for cirque (def. 1)

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