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Meaning of "coulee" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COULEE

From Canadian French coulée a flow, from French, from couler to flow, from Latin cōlāre to sift, purify.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF COULEE

ˈkuːleɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COULEE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Coulee is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COULEE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Coulee

Coulee is applied rather loosely to different landforms, all of which refer to a kind of valley or drainage zone. The word coulee comes from the Canadian French coulée, from French word couler meaning "to flow". The term is often used interchangeably in the Great Plains for any number of water features, from ponds to creeks. In southern Louisiana the word coulée originally meant a gully or ravine usually dry or intermittent but becoming sizable during rainy weather. As stream channels were dredged or canalized, the term was increasingly applied to perennial streams, generally smaller than bayous. The term is also used for small ditches or canals in the swamp.

Definition of coulee in the English dictionary

The first definition of coulee in the dictionary is a flow of molten lava. Other definition of coulee is such lava when solidified. Coulee is also a dry stream valley, especially a long steep-sided gorge or ravine that once carried melt water from a glacier.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COULEE

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COULEE

could · could do with · could´ve · couldn´t · couldst · coulibiac · coulibiaca · coulis · coulisse · couloir · coulomb · Coulomb field · Coulomb´s law · coulombic · coulombmeter · coulometer · coulometric · coulometrically · coulometry · coulter

WORDS THAT END LIKE COULEE

alee · allee · appellee · by the lee · callee · diamond jubilee · enrollee · flee · galilee · gelee · glee · Grand Coulee · jubilee · Klee · lee · melee · parolee · silver jubilee · Tralee · Trincomalee

Synonyms and antonyms of coulee in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «coulee» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COULEE

Find out the translation of coulee to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of coulee from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «coulee» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

古力
1,325 millions of speakers
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coulee
570 millions of speakers
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English

coulee
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

Coulee
380 millions of speakers
ar

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كولي
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Кули
278 millions of speakers
pt

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ravina
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

গিরিখাট
260 millions of speakers
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ravine
220 millions of speakers
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Coulee
190 millions of speakers
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coulee
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

クーリー
130 millions of speakers
ko

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쿨리
85 millions of speakers
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Coulee
85 millions of speakers
vi

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Coulee
80 millions of speakers
ta

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Coulee
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Coulee
75 millions of speakers
tr

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coulee
70 millions of speakers
it

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colata
65 millions of speakers
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coulee
50 millions of speakers
uk

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Кулі
40 millions of speakers
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Coulee
30 millions of speakers
el

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ξεροπόταμου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

COULEE
14 millions of speakers
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coulee
10 millions of speakers
no

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coulee
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of coulee

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COULEE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of coulee
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about coulee

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COULEE»

Discover the use of coulee in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to coulee and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream
In the capable hands of Paul Pitzer, the fight for Grand Coulee Dam and the story of its construction is a vital, animated saga of people striving for dazzling goals and then working to build something spectacular.
Paul C. Pitzer, 1994
2
Secret of Deadman's Coulee
It would just figure!
B.J. Daniels, 2007
3
Grand Coulee Dam
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, a public power advocate, used the Grand Coulee Dam project to help put the unemployed to work.
Ray Bottenberg, 2008
4
Bone Coulee
As teenagers, in a drunken incident Mac Chorniak and his friends were responsible for the death of a young Indian man.
Larry Warwaruk, 2011
5
Dark Coulee
Claire Watkins, deputy sheriff of Pepin County, Wisconsin, makes a strong second showing that ought to gain her new fans.
Mary Logue, 2011
6
B Street: The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam
The stories are set within the wider context of the history and culture of Native Americans whose villages were flooded and whose way of life was irrevocably altered by the dam.
Lawney L. Reyes, 2012
7
Deep Alberta: Fossil Facts and Dinosaur Digs
IN THE i88os, geologists visited a place called Fossil Coulee in southern Alberta, near the town of Warner. One of these men was Joseph Burr Tyrrell, the namesake of the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Few fossils of note were recorded and the site ...
John Acorn, 2007
8
The Coulee Cricket
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Axel Leonard Melander, M. A. Yothers, 2011
9
Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn ...
Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, Sandy Barnard. THE BUTLER MARKER AND DEEP COULEE -?> A special intrigue surrounds First Sergeant James Butler of Company L, whose ...
James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, Sandy Barnard, 2007
10
Prairie Potholes EIS Vegetation Allocation: Vegetation ...
... Creek Borders Coulee 15 Mile Coulee Corregan Coulee Link Coulee Savoy Coulee Twin Coulee Woody Island Coulee Chouteau Coulee Reservoir Coulee Irvlns Coulee Black Coulee Marias River Total Phillips Resource Area Whitewater ...
United States. Bureau of Land Management. Montana State Office, 1981

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COULEE»

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Adopt-a-Thon set at Coulee Region Humane Society
ONALASKA — The Coulee Region Humane Society will host its 11th annual Adopt-a-Thon from 1 to 6 p.m. Friday through Sunday at the ... «La Crosse Tribune, Jul 15»
2
US sets meeting on generator overhauls at 4215-MW Grand Coulee
The Bureau of Reclamation has scheduled an industry day to update vendors on the upcoming overhaul and uprate of generating units G19-21 ... «HydroWorld, Jul 15»
3
State puts brakes on power line construction
A similar transmission line known as Badger-Coulee, approved in April, will eventually connect the CapX line to Dane County at an estimated ... «The Courier Life News, Jul 15»
4
Gundersen surgeon Eric Brekke deeply loved family, patients
Dr. Eric Brekke's untimely death leaves a vacuum not only in the Coulee Region medical community but also among the hundreds of friends ... «La Crosse Tribune, Jul 15»
5
More than 100 forest fires still burning in Canada
Smoke from Canadian wildfires greatly reduced Coulee Region air quality, but conditions improved considerably by midday Tuesday. «La Crosse Tribune, Jul 15»
6
Manfred 'Fred' Kreitlow, 80
Fred met Darlene Martz at the Grand Coulee Dam and they were married in Coeur d'Alene, ID on July 19, 1955. Fred and Darlene had two ... «Montana Standard, Jul 15»
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Local artist to showcase work at Plateau Native Artists art show
... Development Fund (NNDF) will host their first-ever Plateau Native Artists summer art show and sale on July 18th and 19th in Grand Coulee. «KXLY Spokane, Jul 15»
8
Worst is over -- for now (copy)
Smoke from Canadian wildfires greatly reduced Coulee Region air quality, but conditions improved considerably by midday Tuesday. «Winona Daily News, Jul 15»
9
92nd Molalla Buckeroo a success despite rough start
Shane Proctor, the former World Champion bull rider from Grand Coulee, Wash, started his Cowboy Christmas run in Reno, then made stops in ... «Pamplin Media Group, Jul 15»
10
Area high school students leave for France
Last year students from Epinal visited the coulee region, and this year the students will be spending the rest of the month with the family of the ... «WXOW.com, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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