glynとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɡlɪn/
• 韻: -ɪn

名詞

glyn (plural glyns)

1. A valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom.
   • 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

     He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot.

   • 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 434:

     A woodcock from the pool of the glyn,
     Or roebuck from the forest green?"

アナグラム

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