glen
Plural: glens
Noun
- A narrow valley, especially in Scotland or Ireland.
- a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
- A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.
Examples
- He carved a glen-like opening in the center of the Scrabble board for future plays.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 5
glen: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordglen: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
glen: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
glen: valid Words With Friends Word