death valley

1. 1.

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

   Broaderdesert

   Part ofCaliforniaNevadaMojave

Questions about death valley

What does death valley mean?

death valley means "a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America".

Is death valley a common word?

death valley is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.