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combe

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/kuːm/ (UK)

Definition of combe

11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river
    “its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.”
    “gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.”
    “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.”
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noun

  1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river
    “its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.”
    “gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.”
    “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.”
  2. A cirque.

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:
  3. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:
  4. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:
  5. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:
  6. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:
  7. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:
  8. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:
  9. (countable, uncountable)A number of places in England:

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Etymology

From Middle English coumbe, cumbe, from Old English cumb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; compare Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kump (“vessel”). Related to Welsh cwm (“a hollow valley”), Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow”), Sanskrit कुम्भ (kumbha, “a pot, jug”), etc. through Proto-Indo-European *ḱumbʰ-.

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