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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

Valleys, especially in lyrical or elevated poetic language; this term evokes pastoral landscapes, sheltered depths, and the contemplative, often melancholic atmosphere of low-lying terrain.

Detailed Definition
A vale is a valley, often used in older poetry to sound more elevated or picturesque than the everyday word valley. Wordsworth uses it in a landscape description, where the cloud floats over “vales and hills.”
Example
Example in poetry:
“I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o’er vales and hills” (Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”); “vales” is a poetic plural for valleys, often associated with pastoral shelter and lowland fertility; in Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott,” fields and river landscapes frame an enclosed world; a contemporary landscape poem may place wind turbines or roads in “old vales,” mixing pastoral diction with modern change
Additional Notes
“vales” is a literary plural for valleys, and in the quoted line it may not be immediately familiar to modern readers.; Found in the poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
Other Meanings of “vales”
Also Known As
dales glens hollows
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