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vale

/veɪl/

vale noun: a valley.

vale: a valley
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Noun

vale (plural vales)

  1. (poetic) A valley.
    • In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease,1767, Walter Harte, “The Vision of Death”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 16, published 1810, page 370
    • "Make me a cottage in the vale," she said, / "Where I may mourn and pray.1832, Alfred Tennyson, The Palace of Art
    Synonyms:
    dale, valley, combe, dell, slade
    Antonyms:
    hill

Interjection

IPA/ˈvɑːleɪ/

  1. (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.
    • Vale, Sarah Smith

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Vale

The Vale

  1. (informal) Port Vale FC.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Vale

Vale

  1. An unincorporated community in Avery County, North Carolina.
  2. A small area of Catawba County, North Carolina.
  3. An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
  4. A city, the county seat of Malheur County, Oregon.
  5. A census-designated place and township in Butte County, South Dakota.
  6. An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
  7. A small settlement near Cornholme, Todmorden parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9126).

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Vale

Vale (plural Vales)

  1. A surname.

vale meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam

vale in Tamil

பள்ளத்தாக்கு

vale in Urdu

الوداع, خیر باد, درہ, وادی

vale in Telugu

వాలె

vale in Malayalam

താണ നില, താഴ്വാരം
More languagesFewer languages
vale in Kannada
ಕಣಿವೆ

Examples of vale in a sentence

  • Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above,a. 1854, James Montgomery, “Hymn 214”, in The Issues of Life and Death:
  • The short sweet turfage of the hills renders "Portland mutton" almost as famous as Welsh, while the luxuriance of the vales lends itself to the breeding of fine cattle.1910, Arthur L. Salmon, Dorset, page 6:
  • But now a cry went up, passing up the wind from the south from vale to vale, and Elves and Men lifted their voices in wonder and joy.1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Of the Fifth Battle”, in The Silmarillion:

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Synonyms of vale

Antonyms

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Forms of vale

Noun
pluralvales
Proper noun
pluralVales

Origin of vale

From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles. Displaced native Old English dell.

Borrowed from Latin valē, singular imperative of valeō (“be well”).

Words formed from vale

Phrases with vale

61 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with vale

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about vale

What does vale mean?
Vale means a valley.
What is vale in Tamil?
Vale in Tamil is பள்ளத்தாக்கு. See Vale meaning in Tamil.
How do you use vale in a sentence?
Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above,
What part of speech is vale?
Vale can be a noun, an interjection or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vale?
Vale is pronounced /veɪl/.
What is the plural of vale?
The plural of vale is vales.

Words near vale in the dictionary

  1. Valdosta
  2. Valdostan
  3. Valdostans
  4. Valdoviño
  5. Valdres
  6. vale
  7. Vale of Clwyd
  8. Vale of Clwydd
  9. Vale of Evesham
  10. Vale of Glamorgan
  11. Vale of Grwyney

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vale (page history and authors); Vale (page history and authors); vale (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vale (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vale (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); vale (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vale (Kannada 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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