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val

/væl/

val noun: valium.

Noun (1)

val (countable and uncountable, plural vals)

  1. (informal) Valium.
    • and i must be on that list of people that need to get knocked over with a hammer 'cause vicodin and val don't knock me out.1997 May 29, Kate Sholl, “Re: MED: Pain relief in Neck?”, in alt.med.fibromyalgia (Usenet)
    • I would think though that whatever the reason for a panic attack valium would be great. I know that if my house was on fire and I was on 15mg of val It^([sic]) would take a lot more energy than I had, to panic. ;^)1998 December 29, rob [username], “Re: Depression and MS(leg/feet burning pain)”, in alt.support.mult-sclerosis (Usenet)

Proper noun capitalized: Val

Val (plural Vals)

  1. A male given name, a short form of Valentine and Valerius.
    • And Publius Valerius became the baby's name, though it afterwards transpired that they had got hold of the inferior Cato. In 1890, however, when little Publius was nearly ten, the word 'chic' went out of fashion, and sobriety came in; Winifred began to have doubts. They were confirmed by little...1920, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga: In Chancery:I: Chapter 2
  2. A female given name, a short form of Valerie and Valmai.

Noun (2) capitalized: Val

Val (plural Vals)

  1. (abbreviation, clipping, informal) Clipping of Valley girl.
    • “Vals are everywhere,” Miss Zappa said the other afternoon in a telephone interview from the Zappas' Hollywood Hills home. She also reported that Vals are “jealous of Brooke Shields and secretly want to go to New York.”1982 September 15, Moon Zappa, quotee, “They're Clothes Crazy, Fer Sure; Valley Girls aren't just in California”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

val meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

val in Hindi

वैल

val in Marathi

व्हॅल

val in Bengali

ভ্যাল

val in Telugu

వల్, వ్యాల్
More languagesFewer languages
val in Kannada
ವ್ಯಾಲ್
val in Punjabi
ਵੈਲ

Examples of val in a sentence

  • This embraces all mediæval societies between the ninth and twelfth centuries, as its advocates intended.
  • Val walked out behind his mother, chin squared, eyelids drooped, doing his level best to despise everybody.
  • In that position she might have been an effigy on some mediæval tomb such as the Marshal had so often seen.

All 10 example sentences with val

Forms of val

Noun
pluralvals
pluralVals
Proper noun
pluralVals

Origin of val

Shortening of Valium.

Phrases with val

Words that rhyme with val

11 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about val

What does val mean?
Val means valium.
What is val in Hindi?
Val in Hindi is वैल. See Val meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is val?
Val can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce val?
Val is pronounced /væl/.
What is the plural of val?
The plural of val is vals.

Words near val in the dictionary

  1. Vakkaliga
  2. vakouf
  3. vakoufs
  4. Vaksdal
  5. Vakulabharanam
  6. val
  7. Val d'Aran
  8. Val do Dubra
  9. Val Marie
  10. Val Verde
  11. Val Verde County

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: val (page history and authors); Val (page history and authors); val (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); val (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); val (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); val (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); val (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); val (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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