Definition of combe in English:

combe

(also coomb, coombe)

nounkuːm

British

1A short valley or hollow on a hillside or coastline, especially in southern England.
Example sentencesExamples
- On June 22 some 30 members visited a Tudor Manor with formal manorial garden set in a steep and secluded wooded coomb.
- It has 300 miles of exquisite coastline, the bleak beauty of Dartmoor, a chunk of unspoilt Exmoor, as well as its characteristic combes, vast hanging copses of oak and beech, and rugged, still-healthy rivers.
- There are several loops which take you down into the steep, thickly wooded ‘combes’ beneath the hills.
- The return route used a short section of the Ridgeway and then the footpath down a sheltered coombe and a short roam on newly mapped access land.
- It stands in a wooded coomb with a natural spring at its head.
Synonyms
valley, vale, dale
1. 1.1Geology A dry valley in a limestone or chalk escarpment.

Origin

Old English cumb, occurring in charters in the names of places in southern England, many of which survive; of Celtic origin, related to cwm.

Rhymes

abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

Definition of combe in US English:

combe

(also coomb, coombe)

noun

British

1A short valley or hollow on a hillside or coastline.
Example sentencesExamples
- On June 22 some 30 members visited a Tudor Manor with formal manorial garden set in a steep and secluded wooded coomb.
- It has 300 miles of exquisite coastline, the bleak beauty of Dartmoor, a chunk of unspoilt Exmoor, as well as its characteristic combes, vast hanging copses of oak and beech, and rugged, still-healthy rivers.
- It stands in a wooded coomb with a natural spring at its head.
- There are several loops which take you down into the steep, thickly wooded ‘combes’ beneath the hills.
- The return route used a short section of the Ridgeway and then the footpath down a sheltered coombe and a short roam on newly mapped access land.
Synonyms
valley, vale, dale
1. 1.1Geology A dry valley in a limestone or chalk escarpment.

Origin

Old English cumb, occurring in charters in the names of places in southern England, many of which survive; of Celtic origin, related to cwm.

单词	combe
释义	Definition of combe in English: combe (also coomb, coombe) nounkuːm British 1A short valley or hollow on a hillside or coastline, especially in southern England. Example sentencesExamples On June 22 some 30 members visited a Tudor Manor with formal manorial garden set in a steep and secluded wooded coomb. It has 300 miles of exquisite coastline, the bleak beauty of Dartmoor, a chunk of unspoilt Exmoor, as well as its characteristic combes, vast hanging copses of oak and beech, and rugged, still-healthy rivers. There are several loops which take you down into the steep, thickly wooded ‘combes’ beneath the hills. The return route used a short section of the Ridgeway and then the footpath down a sheltered coombe and a short roam on newly mapped access land. It stands in a wooded coomb with a natural spring at its head. Synonyms valley, vale, dale 1.1Geology A dry valley in a limestone or chalk escarpment. Origin Old English cumb, occurring in charters in the names of places in southern England, many of which survive; of Celtic origin, related to cwm. Rhymes abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom Definition of combe in US English: combe (also coomb, coombe) noun British 1A short valley or hollow on a hillside or coastline. Example sentencesExamples On June 22 some 30 members visited a Tudor Manor with formal manorial garden set in a steep and secluded wooded coomb. It has 300 miles of exquisite coastline, the bleak beauty of Dartmoor, a chunk of unspoilt Exmoor, as well as its characteristic combes, vast hanging copses of oak and beech, and rugged, still-healthy rivers. It stands in a wooded coomb with a natural spring at its head. There are several loops which take you down into the steep, thickly wooded ‘combes’ beneath the hills. The return route used a short section of the Ridgeway and then the footpath down a sheltered coombe and a short roam on newly mapped access land. Synonyms valley, vale, dale 1.1Geology A dry valley in a limestone or chalk escarpment. Origin Old English cumb, occurring in charters in the names of places in southern England, many of which survive; of Celtic origin, related to cwm.
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