vale

• POS: Interjection, Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

vale, n. [OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps akin to Gr. 'e`los low ground, marsh meadow. Cf. Avalanche, Vail to lower, Valley.].

 A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.  Tennyson.  [1913 Webster]
" Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in prose and common discourse."  [1913 Webster]
"Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above."  [1913 Webster]
"In those fair vales, by nature formed to please."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Valley; dingle; dell; dale.

vale, n. 

 See 2d Vail, 3.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

vale, n. archaic or poet. (except in place-names) a valley (Vale of the White Horse).

Idiom

vale of tears literary the world as a scene of life, trouble, etc.

vale, int. & n.
--int. farewell.
--n. a farewell.

Etymology

L, imper. of valere be well or strong

THESAURUS

vale

Earth, Gaea, Ge, Tellus, Terra, biosphere, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, combe, dale, dell, dingle, gap, geography, geosphere, gill, glen, globe, grove, intervale, lunar rill, mother earth, pass, ravine, strath, terra, terrestrial globe, the blue planet, this pendent world, trench, trough, vale of tears, valley, wadi, whole wide world, world

ROGET THESAURUS

vale

Concavity

N concavity, depression, dip, hollow, hollowness, indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna, excavation, strip mine, trough, honeycomb, cup, basin, crater, punch bowl, cell, socket, valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove, grot, grotto, alcove, cul-de- sac, gully, arch, bay, excavator, sapper, miner, honeycomb (sponge), depressed, alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing, favaginous, faveolate, favose, scyphiform, scyphose, concave, hollow, stove in, retiring, retreating, cavernous, porous, infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform, funnel shaped, bell shaped, campaniform, capsular, vaulted, arched.