cwmnoun [ C ]
/kʊm//kʊm/specializeda hollow area almost surrounded by steep slopes at the top of a glaciated valley, especially in the Welsh mountains:
The scalloped cwms of the Brecon Beacons are a favourite launching site for hang-gliders and parascenders.
Synonym
cirque
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- My eyes were drawn up and across the cwm to the giant cliffs of Lliwedd soaring up to jagged summits.
- That's the cwm where the yew trees grow.
- Finally we breasted the saddle in the lower ridge, what in the Welsh mountains we would call the cwm.
- This was the approach for the early climbing expeditions, who knew this as the North Cwm.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Geography: hills & mountains
- alpine
- arête
- Ben
- butte
- cirque
- cliff
- clifftop
- col
- drumlin
- hillock
- hilltop
- incline
- knoll
- mountainous
- Mountains
- mountainside
- orographic
- ridge
- shelf
- upland
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Geography: valleys