Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Vale \Vale\, n.
   See 2d {Vail}, 3.

Vale \Vale\, n. [OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps akin to Gr.
   ? low ground, marsh meadow. Cf. {Avalanche}, {Vail} to lower,
   {Valley}.]
   A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley. ``
   Make me a cottage in the vale.'' --Tennyson.

         Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above.
                                                  --Montgomery.

         In those fair vales, by nature formed to please.
                                                  --Harte.

   Note: Vale is more commonly used in poetry, and valley in
         prose and common discourse.

   Syn: Valley; dingle; dell; dale.

Source : WordNet®

vale
     n : a long depression in the surface of the land that usually
         contains a river [syn: {valley}]