Pronunciations
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/kuːm/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Noun
A valley, often wooded and often with no river
- Examples
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its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.
gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.
More examples (1)
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.
A cirque.