GLEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glen mean? 

• GLEN (noun)
  The noun GLEN has 1 sense:

1. a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)

  Familiarity information: GLEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("glen" is a kind of...):

vale; valley (a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river)

Domain region:

Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

 Context examples 

The glen and sky spun round: the hills heaved!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The sun sank lower in the heavens; we passed the river Drance and observed its path through the chasms of the higher and the glens of the lower hills.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They crossed it by a simple bridge, in character with the general air of the scene; it was a spot less adorned than any they had yet visited; and the valley, here contracted into a glen, allowed room only for the stream, and a narrow walk amidst the rough coppice-wood which bordered it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But God sees not as man sees: His will be done—He opened the gate, passed through it, and strayed away down the glen.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As we advanced and left the track, we trod a soft turf, mossy fine and emerald green, minutely enamelled with a tiny white flower, and spangled with a star-like yellow blossom: the hills, meantime, shut us quite in; for the glen, towards its head, wound to their very core.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have always faithfully observed the one, up to the very moment of bursting, sometimes with volcanic vehemence, into the other; and as neither present circumstances warranted, nor my present mood inclined me to mutiny, I observed careful obedience to St. John's directions; and in ten minutes I was treading the wild track of the glen, side by side with him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)