valleyland

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See also: valley-land and valley land

English

Etymology

From valley +‎ land.

Noun

valleyland (plural valleylands)

  1. Land located in a valley.
    • 1909, Jack London, Martin Eden, Chapter 23, [1]
      Love lay on the mountain-tops beyond the valley-land of reason.
    • 1954, C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, Collins, 1998, Chapter 12,
      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, 2012, p. 34, [2]
      [] 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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