valleyland

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See also: valley-land and valley land

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From valley +‎ land.

Noun[edit]

valleyland (plural valleylands)

  1. Land located in a valley.
    • 1909, Jack London, chapter 23, in Martin Eden[1]:
      Love lay on the mountain-tops beyond the valley-land of reason.
    • 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 12, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:
      It was a green valleyland dotted with trees through which he caught the gleam of a river that wound away roughly to the Northwest.
    • 1965, John Updike, Of the Farm, Random House, published 2012, page 34:
      [] a receding valleyland of blacks and purples where an unrippled river flows unseen between shadowy banks of grapes that are never eaten.

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