glen

plural glens

1. A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.

   In the glens of the hills about Strathsporran are many noble and nimble stags. But I have never set foot in my house there, for it is carpeted throughout with the tartan of my clan.

   1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC

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   What riches too, of gold and jewels, might not be hidden among those forest-shrouded glens and peaks? And beyond, and beyond again, ever new islands, new continents perhaps, an inexhaustible wealth of yet undiscovered worlds.

   1871, Charles Kingsley, “Down the Islands”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 41

1. A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic for someone who lives in a valley.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.

   Miller suffered a little when Glen Chapple and Mark Clinton came together but finished the spell with figures of five for 35 from 11 overs, mirroring the performances earlier when Chapple and Mahmood undermined the Warwickshire innings.

   2010 May 18, Mike Averis, “Warwickshire's Andrew Miller takes five wickets then Lancashire bite back”, in The Guardian

3. A river in England, mainly in Lincolnshire.
4. A river in Northumberland, England, a tributary of the River Till.
5. A village in northern County Donegal, Ireland; in Irish An Gleann from gleann (“glen”).
6. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A town in Alcorn County, Mississippi.
   2. A census-designated place in Beaverhead County, Montana.
   3. An unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska, situated in a glen.
   4. An unincorporated community in the town of Bartlett, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
   5. A town in Montgomery County, New York, named after Jacob Glen.

plural Glens

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of Glen of Imaal Terrier.