DENES Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

denes

noun

plural of dene, British

as in valleys

an area of lowland between hills or mountains there are some deeply wooded denes in that part of Northumberland

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It’s set on a remote farm nestled high in the Rocky Mountains in the early 1950s, and the images — of jutting peaks and plunging valleys, of endless stretches of pine, of the craggy frosted grandeur of it all — are vivid enough to carry you away.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Nine days after flash flooding washed away valleys and buried entire villages, rescue workers in Nepal had started to shift their operations from finding survivors to recovering bodies.

— Kosh Raj Koirala, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026

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