noun
combe
Combe (noun) means a valley, usually with trees and no river running through it.
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A valley, usually with trees and no river running through it.
"You wake up next morning on what looks like Salisbury Plain, only here you climb up the side of every combe, round the end and out the other side."
— Timothy H. Cobb, The Kenya-Uganda Railway (1950)
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Etymology
This word came into English from Middle English coumbe, cumbe, which developed from Old English cumb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; compare Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”) and German Kump (“vessel”). It is related, through Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ-, to Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”), and others.
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What is the meaning of combe?
"combe" (noun) means a valley, usually with trees and no river running through it.
