Valley

Valley (countable and uncountable, plural Valleys)

1. (countable) A surname from landforms.

   Synonym: Vallee

2. A placename:
   1. A community in Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada.
   2. A city in Chambers County, Alabama, United States, on the Georgia state line.
   3. A city in Nebraska, United States.
   4. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Valley Township.
   5. A village and community in Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH2979).

the Valley

1. Ellipsis of San Fernando Valley; a valley of southern California, United States.
   • 2006 July 16, Marc Weingarten, “The San Fernando Valley? Hip? Like, Totally!”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The Valley is getting downright cosmopolitan, but it’s unlikely the region will ever completely morph into a hip haven.

   • 2011, “Novacane”, in nostalgia,ULTRA, performed by Frank Ocean:

     She's in school paying for tuition / Doing porn in the Valley

2. Ellipsis of Silicon Valley.
   • 1999, Michael Lewis, “The Accelerated Grimace”, in The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 38:

     The sunshine, the abundance of U.S. government research grants, the willingness of Stanford University to let its professors walk out the door with their inventions and start companies, the presence of a counterculture intent on arming the masses with new technology—all made the Valley the place to be for people with a knack for building new technology.

   • 2002, David Naguib Pellow, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, “Toward Environmental and Social Justice in Silicon Valley, USA, and Beyond”, in The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy, New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 212:

     Since the late 1950s, when perhaps six unions were active in the Valley, the trade associations and individual firms have made it one of their primary missions to destroy all vestiges of worker autonomy, the most visible manifestation of which is the union.

   • 2008, Sarah Lacy, “Sell Out”, in Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0, Gotham Books, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., →ISBN, page 237:

     The company had merged with Sequoia [Capital]-backed X.com, and [Michael] Moritz had insisted on a grown-up CEO to run the combined company. The offer that came back from investors was a $200 million round at a $500 million pre-money valuation. Sounds rich, right? The PayPalers were insulted. It was the height of the bubble; they all thought PayPal was the next great Valley company and should be worth far more than that.

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