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Vale

//veɪl// intj, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    Farewell.

    "Vale, Sarah Smith"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Port Vale FC. informal
  2. 2
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Avery County, North Carolina.
  3. 3
    A surname.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; A small area of Catawba County, North Carolina.
  5. 5
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
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  1. 6
    A place in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Malheur County, Oregon.
  2. 7
    A place in the United States:; A census-designated place and township in Butte County, South Dakota.
  3. 8
    A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
  4. 9
    A small settlement near Cornholme, Todmorden parish, Calderdale borough, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SD9126).
Noun
  1. 1
    A valley. poetic

    "In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease,"

  2. 2
    a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin valē, singular imperative of valeō (“be well”).

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