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vales

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A poetic, old-fashioned plural form of "vale," meaning valleys or low-lying areas of land, often evoking a pastoral or scenic quality in poetry.

Detailed Definition
A vale is a valley, especially one that is broad, pleasant, or poetically described. The plural vales is common in older verse and gives the landscape a more elevated, literary tone than the everyday word “valleys.”
Example
Example in poetry:
“And long, long vales to travel through” (Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”); Long vales delayed the travelers' return; The repeated “long” stretches time as well as distance; Vales can make a journey feel enclosed, secluded, or dreamlike; Beyond the vales, the road rose toward an unknown pass
Additional Notes
“Vales” is a poetic plural for valleys, and the line uses it in a way that may not be immediately familiar to modern readers.; Found in the poem, The Mother’s Return by Dorothy Wordsworth
Other Meanings of “vales”
Also Known As
dales glens hollows
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