A variant spelling of glen or glen; a narrow valley, especially in Scotland or Ireland.
Scots and Irish variant of 'glen' from Scottish Gaelic 'gleann' meaning valley or dell. The spelling variation reflects regional pronunciation differences and alternative transliterations from Gaelic to English.
Scottish place names preserve this word everywhere—Glendale, Glencoe, Glenfinnan—and the variant 'gleen' shows how the same Gaelic word got spelled different ways as English speakers learned it! Gaelic 'gleann' literally meant a place where water flows, connecting valleys to streams.
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