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Webster 1913 Edition


Vale

Vale

(vāl)
,
Noun.
[OE.
val
, F.
val
, L.
vallis
; perhaps akin to Gr.
ἔλοσ
low ground, marsh meadow. Cf.
Avalanche
,
Vail
to lower,
Valley
.]
A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.
“ Make me a cottage in the vale.”
Tennyson.
Beyond this
vale
of tears there is a life above.
Montgomery.
In those fair
vales
, by nature formed to please.
Harte.
Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in prose and common discourse.
Syn. – Valley; dingle; dell; dale.

Vale

,
Noun.
See 2d
Vail
, 3.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vale

VALE

,
Noun.
[L. vallis; Eng. to fall.]
1.
A tract of low ground or of land between hills; a valley. [Vale is used in poetry, and valley in prose and common discourse.]
In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please.
2.
A little trough or canal; as a pump vale to carry off the water from a ship's pump.
3.
Vales, money given to servants. [avails.] [Not used in America.]

Definition 2024


valè

valè

See also: vale, Vale, valé, valê, valë, and vale-

Haitian Creole

Noun

valè

  1. value