glen
[glen]
- a small, narrow, secluded valley.
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Origin of glen
1480–90; < Irish, Scots Gaelic gleann; cognate with Welsh glynn
Glen
[glen]
- a male or female given name.
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Contemporary Examples
It said: “Tonie Tobias, Information Technology, President of GLEN, Gay and Lesbian Employee Network.”
Shady Glen uses unremarkable American cheese and choice beef that anyone can buy at the market.
Then, at around dawn, two well-aimed mortar shots killed two more former Navy SEALS, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
Until this year, Glen Johnson was the dean of Massachusetts political reporters.
Glen Varnadoe is one of the family members who hopes that at least one mystery will be solved.
Historical Examples
Sabbath or no Sabbath, the Glen cannot let him pass without some tribute of their pride.
A Doctor of the Old School, Part 3Ian Maclaren
Before long they reached a sort of glen, at the bottom of which was a winding river.
The Field of IceJules Verne
There were three men sleeping in the glen, and the face of one was plainly to be seen.
The House Under the SeaSir Max Pemberton
There is a river famous for trout that rises in Sulby glen and flows into Ramsey harbour.
The ManxmanHall Caine
They could hear the jolting of the laden cart on its way down the glen.
The ManxmanHall Caine
glen
- a narrow and deep mountain valley, esp in Scotland or Ireland
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Word Origin
C15: from Scottish Gaelic gleann, from Old Irish glend
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Word Origin and History for glen
n.
"narrow valley," late 15c., from Scottish, from Gaelic gleann "mountain valley" (cf. Old Irish glenn, Welsh glyn). Common in place names; cf. Glenlivet (1822), a kind of whiskey, named for the place it was first made (literally "the glen of the Livet," a tributary of the Avon); and Glengarry (1841) a kind of men's cap, of Highland origin, named for a valley in Inverness-shire.
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