strath

/stɹæθ/

Etymology

Clipping of Strathclyde.

name

  1. University of Strathclyde, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.

noun

  1. A wide, flat river valley.“[T]hoſe fair Straths that vvater’d are / VVith Tay and Tvveed’s ſmooth Streams, / VVhich gentily and daintily / Eat dovvn the flovvry Braes; / As greatly and quietly / They vvimple to the Seas.”
  2. A piece of flat land beside a body of water.“[T]he place is pretty pleasant, close by Forth waterside, att the foot of Craigmor, betwixt which and the watar there is a strath very proper for walking: […]”