glyn
/ɡlɪn/
glyn noun: a valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom.
Noun
glyn (plural glyns)
- A valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom.
- He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot.1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...
- A woodcock from the pool of the glyn,
Or roebuck from the forest green?"1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 434
Proper noun capitalized: Glyn
Glyn (plural Glyns)
- A surname from Welsh.
glyn meaning in Bengali
glyn in Bengali
- পার্বত্য অঞ্চলের একটি উপত্যকা
Forms of glyn
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | glyns |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Glyns |
Origin of glyn
Borrowed from Welsh glyn; compare glen. Doublet of glen.
From Welsh glyn (“valley”).
Phrases with glyn
Words that rhyme with glyn
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- chin
- Flynn
- bin
- Quinn
- sin
- tin
- Bryn
- corinne
- inn
- din
- Finn
- grin
- kin
- lin
- linn
- unpin
- Benin
- min
- shin
- violin
- wherein
- within
- akin
- been
- begin
- brin
- chin-chin
- hin
- lyn
- mandolin
- whin
- zoom in
- agin
- agrin
- Arabian jasmine
- blin
- djinn
- Douyin
- edge in
- gimme some skin
- herein
- jinn
- Karin
- kissing kin
- lecithin
- Nguyen
- nin
Questions about glyn
- What does glyn mean?
- Glyn means a valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom.
- What is glyn in Bengali?
- Glyn in Bengali is পার্বত্য অঞ্চলের একটি উপত্যকা. See Glyn meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is glyn?
- Glyn can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce glyn?
- Glyn is pronounced /ɡlɪn/.
- What is the plural of glyn?
- The plural of glyn is glyns.
Words near glyn in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: glyn (page history and authors); Glyn (page history and authors); glyn (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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