DEATH VALLEY • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Death Valley

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/dɛθ vˈæli/ Listen

Death Valley

noun

A desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America.

See images of 'Death Valley'

Etymology of 'Death Valley'

Share |

"Death valley" Quotes from Famous Books

... Murphy—he tends bar for Johnny the Greek, who runs this honkatonk—he's one of 'em. Banker's another. You remember when them Wall Street guys hired 'Panamint Charlie' Wantage to splurge East in a private car scatterin' double eagles all the way and hoorayin' about the big mine he had in Death Valley?" ...

— Louisiana Lou • William West Winter

... settled in life. At that moment I almost loved her, particularly when, having assured her of my entire willingness and ability to spoil everything, she kissed me rapturously on both cheeks and confided to me that she was secretly engaged to an engineer chap who was gophering for potash in Death Valley. The war interrupted his gophering, but Anita informs me that he found the potash, and now he can be a sport and bet his potash against Senora Sepulvida's crude oil. Fortunately, my alleged death gave Anita an opportunity to advance his claims, and he was in a fair way of ...

— The Pride of Palomar • Peter B. Kyne

... palm-tufted coral islets in the turquoise sea ahead. Swift as thought the pictures came and went. One instant he was astride a broncho and flying through the fairy-colored Painted Desert country; the next instant he was gazing down through shimmering heat into the whited sepulchre of Death Valley, or pulling an oar on a freezing ocean where great ice islands towered and glistened in the sun. He lay on a coral beach where the cocoanuts grew down to the mellow-sounding surf. The hulk of an ancient wreck burned with blue ...

— Martin Eden • Jack London

... regulation in New York City is copied all over the United States, notwithstanding the fact that the same law may have been passed by the city council in Winchester, Kentucky, years before and gone unnoticed. And so with Coney Island or Niagara Falls or Death Valley, or any one of a hundred other places that might be named. The fashions they originate, the ideas for which they stand sponsors, the accidents that happen in their vicinity, all have specific interest by virtue of their previous note or notoriety. And if the ...

— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer

... the Sahara or our own Death Valley. One extreme is as bad as the other. Some time I hope your father will take me along on one of those treasure hunts. I should like to be in at the finding of a pirate ship. It would make a boy out ...

— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath