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Word entry · 5 letters

combe

Best crossword clue

"Wooded valley"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /kuːm/Sorted bcemoStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2O3M4B5E

Definitions

  1. A valley, often wooded and often with no river

Word origin

From Middle English coumbe, cumbe, from Old English cumb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz; compare Dutch kom (“bowl, basin”), German Kump (“vessel”).

Used in a sentence

  • its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.
  • gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.
  • You wake up next morning on what looks like Salisbury Plain, only here you climb up the side of every combe, round the end and out the other side.

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