weald

[ weeld ]
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noun
  1. wooded or uncultivated country.

Origin of weald

1
before 1150; Middle English weeld,Old English weald forest; cognate with German Wald;cf. wold1

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Other definitions for Weald (2 of 2)

Weald
[ weeld ]

noun
  1. The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.

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How to use weald in a sentence

  • He was born, he says, in the weald of Kent; and suffered much from his parents poverty, when young.

  • In the parish church of Cranbrook, in the weald of Kent, is a curious bath for immersion, of which the following is the history.

  • The sun had burst through the gauzy mists which veiled it, and the whole broad weald was washed in golden light.

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  • As you pass along you command a noble view of the wild, or weald, on one hand, and the broad downs and sea on the other.

  • We live at a very quiet little country village in the weald of Surrey.

British Dictionary definitions for weald (1 of 2)

weald

/ (wiːld) /


noun
  1. British archaic open or forested country

Origin of weald

1
Old English; related to Old Saxon, Old High German wald, Old Norse vollr, probably related to wild

British Dictionary definitions for Weald (2 of 2)

Weald

/ (wiːld) /


noun
  1. the Weald a region of SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and East and West Sussex between the North Downs and the South Downs: formerly forested

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