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This is also what allows what’s outside its doorstep to take precedence: the soul-stirring glens, spirit-rejuvenating streams, and craggy peaks of Cairngorms National Park.—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2026 Easing out of Glasgow Central station, the Glasgow-to-Mallaig line follows the mighty River Clyde before darting into the wild glens of Loch Lomond.—James March, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2025 Best for Solo Train Enthusiasts: Scotland Discover the incredible and indelible beauty of the Scottish highlands, full of lochs, glens, castles and fluffy highland cows and sheep on a journey with Vacations by Rail.—Wendy Altschuler, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025 In terms of materials, Brown describes their creation as a result of her early success, pointing to 2002’s Figures in a Landscape 2, her six-foot by almost seven-foot painting that sends you back to one of Fragonard’s forest glens, with the female in the gaze of the lurking male.—Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for glen
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Etymology
Middle English (Scots), valley, from Scottish Gaelic & Irish gleann, from Old Irish glenn