noun

• 1British A short valley or hollow on a hillside or coastline.

  ‘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.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘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.’
  • ‘On June 22 some 30 members visited a Tudor Manor with formal manorial garden set in a steep and secluded wooded coomb.’
  • ‘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.