Valley vs. Glen: What's the Difference?

An elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom.

A small, secluded valley.

An extensive area of land drained or irrigated by a river system.

A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.

A depression or hollow resembling or suggesting a valley, as the point at which the two slopes of a roof meet.

A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.

An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often garnished with a river flowing through it.

A narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)

An area which drains itself into a river.

Any structure resembling one, e.g. the interior angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes.

To form the shape of a valley.

The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.

The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reëntrant angle.

A long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river