vale
pronunciation
How to pronounce vale in British English:
UK [veɪl]
How to pronounce vale in American English:
US [vel]
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- Noun:
- a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
Word Origin
- vale
- vale: see valley
- vale (n.)
- river-land between two ranges of hills, early 14c., from Old French val "valley, vale" (12c.), from Latin vallem (nominative vallis, valles) "valley" (see valley). Now "little used except in poetry" [Century Dictionary]. Vale of years "old age" is from "Othello." Vale of tears "this world as a place of trouble" is attested from 1550s.
Example
- 1. He was named vale 's chief executive in 2001 .
- 2. Vale is working to improve a line through malawi to take the coal for export .
- 3. Vale could not be reached for comment .
- 4. Vale is the world 's leading iron ore exporter .
- 5. That greatly improves the negotiating power of distant vale .