valleyland

See also: valley-land and valley land

English

Etymology

From valley +‎ land.

Noun

valleyland (plural valleylands)

1. Land located in a valley.
   • 1909, Jack London, chapter 23, in Martin Eden‎^[1]:

     Love lay on the mountain-tops beyond the valley-land of reason.

   • 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 12, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998:

     It was a green valleyland dotted with trees through which he caught the gleam of a river that wound away roughly to the Northwest.

   • 1965, John Updike, Of the Farm, Random House, published 2012, page 34:

     […] a receding valleyland of blacks and purples where an unrippled river flows unseen between shadowy banks of grapes that are never eaten.

Alternative forms

• valley-land
• valley land