News 12 Networks: Hundreds pack Glen Island Harbour Club for Westchester Magazine's Best of Westchester Event
Hundreds pack Glen Island Harbour Club for Westchester Magazine's Best of Westchester Event
One of Westchester’s unique jewels, Glen Island Harbour Club has a rich historic past — originally created in 1879 as a summer resort before transforming into the Glen Island Casino. It later became ...
GLEN meaning: 1. a deep, narrow valley, especially among mountains: 2. a deep, narrow valley, especially among…. Learn more.
glen (ɡlɛn) n (Physical Geography) a narrow and deep mountain valley, esp in Scotland or Ireland [C15: from Scottish Gaelic gleann, from Old Irish glend]
A glen is a deep, narrow valley, especially in the mountains of Scotland or Ireland. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Many place-names in Scotland with "glen" derive from the Gaelic gleann ("deep valley"), with some being from the cognates in the Brittonic languages Cumbric and Pictish or from the Gaelic loanword glen in Scots.
From Middle English glen, borrowed from Irish gleann and Scottish Gaelic gleann, Old and Middle Irish glend, glenn (“ mountain valley ”), from Proto-Celtic *glendos (“valley”), hypothetically from Proto-Indo-European *glend- (“ shore ”) but the word may have been borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language.
Definition of glen noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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A glen is a narrower and steeper-sided valley than a strath, though the names have not always been applied with discrimination.