glen

¹

[glen]

noun

1. a small, narrow, secluded valley.

Glen

²

[glen]

noun

1. a male or female given name.

glen

/ ɡlɛn /

noun

1. a narrow and deep mountain valley, esp in Scotland or Ireland

Other Word Forms

• glenlike adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of glen¹

1480–90; < Irish, Scots Gaelic gleann; cognate with Welsh glynn

Word History and Origins

Origin of glen¹

C15: from Scottish Gaelic gleann, from Old Irish glend

Example Sentences

But the organisation said finding meteorites would be difficult in a vast area of mountains and glens.

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Ms Potter opened the page to find Iona - a text-to-speech programme marketed as a red haired woman standing in a Scottish glen.

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There are suspicions the Cairngorms lynx were abandoned pets, or were let go by people who want to see the animals reinstated to wooded hills and glens.

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According to the trust, thousands of years ago the glen would have been a native woodland but it was left bare by human intervention such as grazing sheep and deer.

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There are suspicions the Cairngorms lynx are abandoned pets, or were let go by people who want to see the animals reinstated to wooded hills and glens.

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