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A vale

From Middle English vale, from Old French val (“valley”), from Latin vallis, valles.

• enPR: vāl, IPA(key): /veɪl/, [veɪɫ]
• Rhymes: -eɪl
• Homophones: veil, vail, Vail

vale (plural vales)

1. (chiefly poetic) A valley.
   Synonyms: dale; see also Thesaurus:valley
   Antonym: hill
   • 1767, Walter Harte, “The Vision of Death”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume 16, published 1810, page 370:
     In those fair vales, by nature form'd to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease,
   • a. 1854, James Montgomery, “Hymn 214”, in The Issues of Life and Death:
     Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above,
   • 1910, Arthur L. Salmon, Dorset, page 6:
     The short sweet turfage of the hills renders "Portland mutton" almost as famous as Welsh, while the luxuriance of the vales lends itself to the breeding of fine cattle.
   • 1977, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Of the Fifth Battle”, in The Silmarillion:
     But now a cry went up, passing up the wind from the south from vale to vale, and Elves and Men lifted their voices in wonder and joy.

• Adamsvale

• Adavale

• Aigburth Vale

• Aitkenvale

• Albanvale

• Alstonvale

• Ambarvale

• Angle Vale

• Arcadia Vale

• Arnos Vale

• Ascot Vale

• Ashton Vale

• Ash Vale

• Auburn Vale

• Avoca Vale

• Aylesbury Vale

• Barkers Vale

• Barkestone-le-Vale

• Berkeley Vale

• Birch Vale

• Blackmore Vale

• Blue Vale

• Bowenvale

• Bradvale

• Brookvale

• Broughton Vale

• Calamvale

• Caldervale

• Campvale

• Canley Vale

• Canning Vale, Canningvale

• Cannonvale

• Castle Vale

• Cedar Vale

• Chapple Vale

• Chesney Vale

• Clara Vale, Claravale

• Clarendon Vale

• Cliffe Vale

• Clintonvale

• Colevale

• Collinsvale

• Colo Vale

• Cottonvale

• Crowley Vale

• Curdievale

• Deer Vale

• Diamondvale

• Dixvale

• Donvale

• Dorset Vale

• Drewvale

• Eagle Vale

• Ebbw Vale

• Edithvale

• Eerwah Vale

• Elermore Vale

• Elgin Vale

• Elizabeth Vale

• Empire Vale

• Emu Vale

• Erin Vale

• Fernvale

• Finlayvale

• Forestvale

• Furness Vale

• Gala Vale

• Gardenvale

• Glamorgan Vale

• Glenvale

• Gordonvale

• Grahamvale

• Granite Vale

• Greenvale

• Grose Vale

• Hannam Vale

• Hartley Vale

• Hatton Vale

• Hazelvale

• Helensvale

• Highvale

• Hodgson Vale

• Hope Vale

• Hordern Vale

• Humevale

• Japoonvale

• Kielvale

• Killarney Vale

• Kindervale

• Kingsvale

• Korong Vale

• Lade Vale

• Landervale

• Langley Vale

• Lansvale

• Laravale

• Leets Vale

• Leslie Vale

• Lilyvale

• Limevale

• Loddon Vale

• Lonnavale

• Lowan Vale

• Lucyvale

• Maida Vale

• Maitland Vale

• Manly Vale

• Marionvale

• Marthavale

• Maryvale

• Mayvale

• McLaren Vale

• Meadowvale

• Meerschaum Vale

• Merivale

• Merryvale

• Merthyr Vale

• Midvale

• Miltonvale

• Milvale

• Minnivale

• Miriam Vale

• Mona Vale

• Morphett Vale

• Morton Vale

• Moss Vale

• Musk Vale

• Myrtlevale

• Narellan Vale

• Neusa Vale

• Nulla Vale

• Numbla Vale

• Oakvale

• Obanvale

• Ogmore Vale

• Orrvale

• Oxley Vale

• Palmvale

• Pascoe Vale

• Pascoe Vale South

• Pewsey Vale

• Pinevale

• Prospect Vale

• Pullenvale

• Rawdon Vale

• Richmond Vale

• Riordanvale

• Risdon Vale

• Rivervale

• Roadvale

• Robinvale

• Rosevale

• Rossvale

• Rukenvale

• Russell Vale

• Samsonvale

• Shannon Vale, Shannonvale

• Sladevale

• Springvale South

• Spring Vale, Springvale

• Stanford in the Vale

• Staughton Vale

• Staunton in the Vale

• St John's in the Vale

• Streatham Vale

• Sturt Vale

• Sunnyvale

• Swan Vale

• Toolern Vale

• Torrens Vale

• Trent Vale

• Upper Wheatvale

• Vale of Clwyd, Vale of Clwydd

• Vale of Evesham

• Vale of Glamorgan

• Vale of Grwyney

• Vale of Health

• Vale of Neath

• Vale of Pewsey

• vale of tears

• Vale of Tempe

• Vale of White Horse

• Vale of York

• Vale Park

• Vale View

• Vervale

• Victoria Vale

• Vine Vale

• Walkervale

• Wando Vale

• Warnervale

• Watervale

• Wellington Vale

• Wesley Vale

• Westvale, West Vale

• Wheatvale

• Willowvale, Willow Vale

• Woodvale

• Wootong Vale

• Wyndham Vale

• Wynn Vale

• Yatala Vale

• valley

Borrowed from Latin valē, singular imperative of valeō (“be well”).

• enPR: väʹlā, IPA(key): /ˈvɑːleɪ/

vale

1. (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.
   Vale, Sarah Smith

• valediction
• valiant
• Leva, Veal, Vela, avel, eval, lave, leva, veal, vela

From Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Romanian vale.

• IPA(key): [ˈvale]

vale f (definite articulation valea)

1. alternative form of vali

Ultimately from Latin valeo.

• IPA(key): [ˈvalɛ]
• Rhymes: -alɛ

vale

1. (archaic, informal) farewell, good bye
   Synonyms: sbohem, see also ahoj

• “vale”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “vale”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

vale

1. inflection of vaal:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

From Proto-Finnic *valëh. Cognate to Finnish valhe and Votic valõ. Possibly a derivation from valama, where the word originally might have meant "sausage poured into an intestine", which was then used idiomatically with the meaning of "lie".

vale (genitive **vale, partitive valet, comparative valem, superlative kõige valem)

1. false

vale (genitive **vale, partitive valet)

1. lie

From Proto-Central Pacific *vale, from Proto-Oceanic *pale, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *balay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balay.

vale

1. house
2. building

• valhe

From Proto-Finnic *valëh. Cognate to Estonian vale. Perhaps equivalent to vala +‎ -e.

• IPA(key): /ˈʋɑleˣ/, [ˈʋɑ̝le̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑle
• Syllabification(key): va‧le
• Hyphenation(key): va‧le

vale

1. (colloquial or dialectal) alternative form of valhe (“lie; untruth; fabrication”)

• Commonly used in compounds: see vale-.

• The partitive singular valetta is rather common in the standard language, as a kind of antonym for totta.

• (untruth): palturi, soopa, valhe, epätotuus

• vale- (see for compounds)

• valehdella

• emävale

• kalavale

• valepukki

• valheellinen

• “vale”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

• alve

vale

1. inflection of valer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of valar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

From French avaler (“to swallow”).

• IPA(key): /vale/

vale

1. (transitive) to swallow

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 198

From Proto-Finnic *valëh. Cognates include Finnish vale and Estonian vale.

Perhaps from vallaa (“to lie”) +‎ -e, if the verb is not a back-formation from the noun instead.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈʋɑle/, [ˈʋɑɫe̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈʋɑle/, [ˈʋɑɫe̞ˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑle
• Hyphenation: va‧le

vale

1. lie, untruth

• valehella

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 634

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vale

1. third-person singular present indicative of valere

Borrowed from Latin valē (“be well, goodbye”).

vale

1. (rare, formal, humorous) goodbye, be well

vale

1. (poetic) farewell, final farewell to the dying or deceased

• lave, leva, vela

From the verb valeō (“to be well, healthy”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwa.ɫeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈvaː.le]

valē (plural valēte)

1. goodbye, farewell
   • a. 54 BC, Catullus, Catullus 101
     ave atque vale
     Hail and farewell

• This is the singular form. When addressing a group, valēte is used.
• valedīcō
• → English: vale
• → Italian: vale
• → Spanish: vale

valē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of valeō

• ad Deum
• “vale”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vale”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vale", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vale”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) good-bye; farewell: vale or cura ut valeas

Borrowed from Old French val, from Latin vallis. Compare valeye.

• vaile, vayle, wale
• IPA(key): /ˈvaːl(ə)/

vale (plural vales)

1. valley (depression between hills)
2. battlefield (place of battle)
3. (figuratively) (A place of) hardship.
4. (rare) An indentation or depression.

• valen
• avalen
• English: vale
• Scots: vale
• “vāle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

vale

1. alternative form of valen

Um vale.

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈva.li/

• (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈva.li/

  • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈva.le/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈva.lɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈva.lɨ/

  • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈba.lɨ/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ali, (Portugal) -alɨ, (Portugal, with apocope) -al

• Homophones: bale (Northern Portugal), val (Portugal)

• Hyphenation: va‧le

From Old Galician-Portuguese vale, val, from Latin vallis (“valley”).

• val

vale m (plural vales)

1. valley

• Valongo
• Valouro
• Valpaços

Deverbal from valer (“to be worth”).

vale m (plural vales)

1. voucher, coupon
   Synonyms: (Brazil) cupom, (Portugal) cupão

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vale

1. inflection of valer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “vale”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “vale”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Latin vallis, vallem. Compare Aromanian vali / vale.

• IPA(key): [ˈvale]

vale f (plural văi)

1. valley

• vâlcea
• IPA(key): /ˈbale/ [ˈba.le]
• Rhymes: -ale
• Syllabification: va‧le

A nominalisation of vale, third-person singular present indicative of valer (“to be worth”).

vale m (plural vales)

1. a voucher; an IOU
   vale de comida ― meal ticket

See valer.

vale

1. (Spain) okay
   Synonyms: dale, sale, okey

• In Mexico, the complete expression sale y vale is also used to mean "OK".

vale

1. inflection of valer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Latin valē (“be well, goodbye”).

vale

1. goodbye, be well

• “vale”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

vale ?

1. Fix sea mark on land (Historical use in West Sweden)

• tvi vale
• elva, lave, leva, vela

Borrowed from French valet.

• IPA(key): /ˈva.le/
• Hyphenation: va‧le

vale (definite accusative valeyi, plural valeler)

1. valet
2. (card games) jack
   Synonyms: bacak, oğlan, fanti

Playing cards in Turkish · iskambil (layout · text)
as, birli	ikili	üçlü	dörtlü	beşli	altılı	yedili
sekizli	dokuzlu	onlu	bacak, oğlan, vale, fanti	kız	papaz, rua	joker

• “vale”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “vale”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “vale”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

vale

1. alternative form of vall
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
     Vale a danceen.
     Set at dancing.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 74