Usually means: Narrow, secluded valley between hills.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word glen:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. glen: Merriam-Webster
  2. glen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. glen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. glen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. glen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Glen, Glen, glen: Wordnik
  7. glen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Glen, glen: Wiktionary
  9. glen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. glen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. glen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Glen, glen: Dictionary.com
  13. glen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Glen (Raising Arizona), Glen (given name), Glen (surname), Glen, The Glen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Glen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. glen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. glen: Rhymezone
  18. Glen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. glen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. glen: FreeDictionary.org
  21. glen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. glen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. glen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glen-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. glen: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. GLEN: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glen: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.
noun:  A Scottish habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic for someone who lives in a valley.
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A river in England, mainly in Lincolnshire.
noun:  A village in northern County Donegal, Ireland; in Irish An Gleann from gleann (“glen”).
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A town in Alcorn County, Mississippi.
noun:  A census-designated place in Beaverhead County, Montana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska, situated in a glen.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bartlett, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
noun:  A town in Montgomery County, New York, named after Jacob Glen.
noun:  Short for Glen of Imaal Terrier. [A kind of terrier originating from the Glen of Imaal in County Wicklow, Ireland.]

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