Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wide, flat river valley.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scotland, a valley of considerable size, often having a river running through it and giving it its distinctive appellation: as, Strathspey (the valley of the Spey), Strathearn (the valley of the Earn), and Strathmore (the great valley).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland A wide, flat river
valley .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"strath" or "dale" -- presents insurmountable philological difficulties to its identification with Gwen; the L and G, or GW not being interchangeable.
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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We passed sandbags in Milnathort (which had featured in the television news), and in Strathardle itself (a short strath, as straths go) there was a “Police Slow” sign followed by 100 yards of streaks of mud on the road.
Archive 2009-07-01 Jean 2009
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Aspen is one of my favourite trees in the strath, and having the bowl with the knives to come makes it even more so now.
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There are pine martens in the strath, but we rarely see them.
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Standing under the aspen trees that straddle this burn in our strath, I wondered at the varying shapes.
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We passed sandbags in Milnathort (which had featured in the television news), and in Strathardle itself (a short strath, as straths go) there was a “Police Slow” sign followed by 100 yards of streaks of mud on the road.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Although there are pine martens in the strath we rarely see them, but occasionally we observe their tracks in mud or droppings in various places.
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Although we have lived in this strath for 24 years the garden still, fortunately, keeps coming up with surprises so far as wildlife is concerned.
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I mentioned this to the local wood turner and carver who lives up the strath from our cottage.
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As we left, the strath was shrouded in a harr, a type of sea mist, but by the time we have driven east from Inverness conditions were ideal.
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