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A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic for someone who lives in a valley.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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A river in England, mainly in Lincolnshire.
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A river in Northumberland, England, a tributary of the River Till.
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A village in northern County Donegal, Ireland; in Irish An Gleann from gleann (“glen”).
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A number of places in the United States:
A town in Alcorn County, Mississippi.
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A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Beaverhead County, Montana.
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska, situated in a glen.
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Bartlett, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
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A number of places in the United States:
A town in Montgomery County, New York, named after Jacob Glen.
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noun
A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.
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Ellipsis of Glen of Imaal Terrier.
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a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
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Broader terms: valley, vale
History
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. Compare Manx glion, Welsh glyn. Doublet of glyn.
Across languages
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