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valleyful

valleyful noun: as much as fills a valley.

Noun

valleyful (plural valleyfuls or valleysful)

  1. As much as fills a valley.
    • Elham, Stelling, Waltham, Bishopsbourne with its literary as well as its architectural treasures, Patrixbourne whose church is one of the most perfect pure Norman pieces in England, Denton, and Wootton, the seat of the Bridges family, that gave us a famous littérateur at the beginning of the...1948, Richard Church, Kent, page 197
    • Holding aloft valleysful of brown wooden huts, like loaded trays in the palms of black-tailed waiters, upturned for the scrutiny of a jewelled moon-goddess, the mountains and valleys rose and swam out of sight.1961, Samuel Roth, My Friend Yeshea, page 1

Examples of valleyful in a sentence

  • Ann's son was so good at mimicking marmots that he was soon "talking" to a whole valleyful of the critters.1997, John Graham, Outdoor Leadership: Technique, Common Sense & Self-confidence:
  • Soon his profits were ten times the value of his investment, and he counted his herds by the valleyful.2008, Richard L. Smith, Premodern Trade in World History:

Forms of valleyful

pluralvalleyfuls
pluralvalleysful

Origin of valleyful

From valley + -ful.

Questions about valleyful

What does valleyful mean?
Valleyful means as much as fills a valley.
How do you use valleyful in a sentence?
Ann's son was so good at mimicking marmots that he was soon "talking" to a whole valleyful of the critters.
What part of speech is valleyful?
Valleyful is a noun.
What is the plural of valleyful?
The plural of valleyful is valleyfuls.

Words near valleyful in the dictionary

  1. valley-girls
  2. valley-land
  3. valley-lands
  4. valleyed
  5. Valleyfield
  6. valleyful
  7. valleyfuls
  8. valleying
  9. valleyite
  10. valleyites
  11. valleyland

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