combe

See also: Combe and combé

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Old English cumb, from Proto-Brythonic (compare Welsh cwm), from Proto-Celtic *kumbā.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: ko͞om, IPA(key): /kuːm/
  • Homophone: cwm
  • Rhymes: -uːm

Noun

combe (plural combes)

  1. A valley or hollow, often wooded and with no river.
    • 1914, Saki, ‘The Cobweb’, Beasts and Superbeasts:
      its long, latticed window [...] looked out on a wild spreading view of hill and heather and wooded combe.
    • Southey
      A gradual rise the shelving combe displayed.
  2. A cirque.

Usage notes

Used, especially in South West England, in many placenames, e.g. Compton, Wycombe.

Translations

Further reading

French

Etymology

From Transalpine Gaulish *cumba, from Proto-Celtic *kumbā. Compare Breton komm (“river-bed”), Irish com.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃b/

Noun

combe f (plural combes)

  1. (geography) combe (valley or hollow, often wooded and with no river)

Further reading

Italian

Noun

combe f

  1. plural of comba

Spanish

Verb

combe

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of combar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of combar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of combar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of combar.
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