Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: glen
IPA transcription: [ɡl'ɛn]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: glen
    Meaning: a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
Usage examples
  • "Well, it's the property of the Glen St. Mary Presbyterian Church now, and I rented it from the trustees.
  • She died last spring, and as she had no near relatives she left her property to the Glen St. Mary Church.
  • And from it towards the land a hollow glen slopes gradually away, where there is a cave of Hades overarched by wood and rocks.
  • The abode of my fathers, which I was now approaching, was situated in a glen, or narrow valley, which ran up among those hills.
  • Kenneth promptly mailed a check for the amount demanded and early next morning started for the glen with what he called his "eliminators."
  • He would relinquish the three signs in the glen for a payment of fifty dollars each, with the understanding that no other competing signs were to take their place.
  • Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the Horican.
  • He told them what he had been able to accomplish by himself, in a short time; how he had redeemed the glen from its disgraceful condition and restored it to its former beauty.
  • You may, perhaps, buy the privilege of maintaining the rocks of the glen free from advertising; but the advertisers will paint more signs on all the approaches, and you won't have gained much."
  • When evening came the letters had almost disappeared when viewed closely; but when Kenneth rode to the mouth of the glen on his way home and paused to look back, he could see the injunction "Take Smith's Liver Pills" staring at him, in grim defiance of the scrubbing brushes.