Dictionary

Valley en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (Received-Pronunciation) audio
• /ˈvæli/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• văl'ē (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• (General-American) audio

Meanings

1. (countable) A surname from landforms.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of the San Fernando Valley: a valley of southern California, United States.
   alt of the San Fernando Valley
   • The Valley is getting downright cosmopolitan, but it’s unlikely the region will ever completely morph into a hip haven. 2006 July 16, Marc Weingarten, “The San Fernando Valley? Hip? Like, Totally!”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • She's in school paying for tuition / Doing porn in the Valley 2011, “Novacane”, in nostalgia,ULTRA, performed by Frank Ocean:
3. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A community in Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Silicon Valley.
   alt of Silicon Valley
   • Since the late 1950s, when perhaps six unions were active in the Valley, the trade associations and individual firms have made it one of their primary missions to destroy all vestiges of worker autonomy, the most visible manifestation of which is the union. 2002, David Naguib Pellow, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, “Toward Environmental and Social Justice in Silicon Valley, USA, and Beyond”, in The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy, New York, N.Y.; London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 212:
   • The company had merged with Sequoia [Capital]-backed X.com, and [Michael] Moritz had insisted on a grown-up CEO to run the combined company. The offer that came back from investors was a $200 million round at a $500 million pre-money valuation. Sounds rich, right? The PayPalers were insulted. It was the height of the bubble; they all thought PayPal was the next great Valley company and should be worth far more than that. 2008, Sarah Lacy, “Sell Out”, in Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0, Gotham Books, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., →ISBN, page 237:
   • The sunshine, the abundance of U.S. government research grants, the willingness of Stanford University to let its professors walk out the door with their inventions and start companies, the presence of a counterculture intent on arming the masses with new technology—all made the Valley the place to be for people with a knack for building new technology. 1999, Michael Lewis, “The Accelerated Grimace”, in The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 38:
5. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A city in Chambers County, Alabama, United States, on the Georgia state line.
6. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A city in Nebraska, United States.
7. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A number of townships in the United States, listed under Valley Township.
8. (countable, uncountable) A placename: ▸ A village and community in Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH2979).

Forms

Deriveds

Valley girl (San Fernando Valley)

Relateds

valley · Valley City · The Valley · Valley County · County of Valley · Valley Mountains · Valley Creek · Valley Township · Township of Valley

Synonyms

Vallee

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