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valley

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noun

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

Examples

A few farms were dotted about in the valley.

Some 1000m directly below me ran a river along the bottom of the valley and the mountains rose from there around me.

A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.

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mountain

Definitions

noun

  1. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
  2. a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill

Examples

Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.

We were headed for the mountains

We gave ourselves a mountain to climb.

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