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glen

(glĕn)

A small, secluded valley.

[Middle English, from Scottish Gaelic gleann, from Old Irish glenn.]

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glen

(ɡlɛn)

(Physical Geography) a narrow and deep mountain valley, esp in Scotland or Ireland

[C15: from Scottish Gaelic gleann, from Old Irish glend]

ˈglenˌlike adj

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glen

(glɛn)

n.

a small, narrow, secluded valley.

[1480–90; < Irish, Scottish Gaelic gleann; c. Welsh glynn]

glen′like`, adj.

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Noun

glen - a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)

Scotland - one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts

vale, valley - a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river

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barranca

gola

glen

[glen] N → cañada f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

glen

[ˈglɛn] n → vallée f

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glen

n → Tal nt

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glen

[glɛn] n → vallone m

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His father and mother were poor farmer people, and James ran about barefooted and wild among the hills and glens. When he was about seven years old the quiet of his Highland home was broken by the sounds of war, for the Highland folk had risen in rebellion against King George II., and were fighting for Prince Charlie, hoping to have a Stewart king once more.

Now little James watched the red coats of the southern soldiers as, with bayonets gleaming in the sun, they wound through the glens. He heard the Highland battle-cry and the clash of steel on steel, for fighting came near his home, and his own people joined the standard of the Pretender.

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The flames which swept rapidly over the light vegetation of the prairies assumed a fiercer character and took a stronger hold amid the wooded glens and ravines of the mountains.

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The beautiful aspect of the shore is heightened by deep and romantic glens, which come down to it at almost equal distances, all apparently radiating from a common centre, and the upper extremities of which are lost to the eye beneath the shadow of the mountains.

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This was to lie the night in Kinlochaline in the public inn; to cross Morven the next day to Ardgour, and lie the night in the house of one John of the Claymore, who was warned that I might come; the third day, to be set across one loch at Corran and another at Balachulish, and then ask my way to the house of James of the Glens, at Aucharn in Duror of Appin.

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So it came about that one day they slipped from the kraal when the gates were open, and sought out a certain deep glen which had an evil name, for it was said that spirits haunted it and put those to death who entered there.

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This is a little white house on the harbor shore, half way between Glen St.

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For being at Tranque, years ago, when attached to the trading-ship Dey of Algiers, I was invited to spend part of the Arsacidean holidays with the lord of Tranque, at his retired palm villa at Pupella; a sea-side glen not very far distant from what our sailors called Bamboo-Town, his capital.

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You cross a divide from it and come out at Glen Ellen.

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Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.

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No one ever came there, not even the village boys of Glen Ellen.

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Yet, to himself, he made the excuse of going to Glen Ellen for the purpose of inspecting the brickyard with which Holdsworthy had goldbricked him.