Definition of glen
: a secluded narrow valley
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Cross the grassy little glen sliced by the creek feeding the lake and return to your starting point.
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The gardens are filled with more than 200 varieties of vegetables, 50 varieties of herbs and edible flowers, 75 varieties of fruit, 200 varieties of flowers, a mushroom glen, and beehives.
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Wagons had to haul all this material through the muddy fens and glens of the Scotch lowland to an assembly point just beyond bowshot range on the plain below the castle wall.
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The tribe’s happiness is interrupted when representatives of a more advanced civilization encroach on their glen, kicks them off the land, and proceeds to use it for a bronze-mining operation.
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Rest on Your Laurels Roswell’s Foundation Social Eatery serves a glass that tastes like a walk through a misty glen.
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Many consider Glen Coe to be one of the most beautiful glens, or valleys, in Scotland.
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Rebuilt after a fire 50 years ago, the resort today is rustic, a collection of 30 or so one-bedroom wooden cabins situated in a glen along the Sol Duc River in the shadow of the Olympic mountain range.
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Its original name was Glenbrook, in homage to the property’s protected glen and the brook that flows through it.
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Origin and Etymology of glen
Middle English (Scots), valley, from Scottish Gaelic & Irish gleann, from Old Irish glenn
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First Known Use: 15th century
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