vale Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river
    valley.

WordNet

Vale noun
Etymology
OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps akin to Gr. low ground, marsh meadow. Cf. Avalanche, Vail to lower, Valley.
Definitions
  1. A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley. " Make me a cottage in the vale." Tennyson.
    Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. Montgomery.
    In those fair vales, by nature formed to please. Harte.
    ✍ Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in prose and common discourse. Syn. -- Valley; dingle; dell; dale.
Vale noun
Definitions
  1. See 2d Vail, 3.

Webster 1913