weald
noun
wooded or uncultivated country.
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weald
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[weeld]
/ wild /
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Weald
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[weeld]
/ wild /
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Weald
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British
/ wiːld /
noun
weald
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/ wiːld /
noun
Etymology
Origin of weald
before 1150; Middle English weeld, Old English weald forest; cognate with German Wald; cf. wold 1
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The herald of the right and might of empire lies silent amid the weald and the marsh and the down country of Sussex.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amid the "weald" of Sussex, Mr. Kipling remained alive, did not sing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The richly-wooded weald, with here and there a light twinkling on it, lay far below, stretching to Lewes.
From The Broom-Squire by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Within eighteen or twenty minutes they were a good four miles from Nuthill and nearing the gap in the high ridge through which one looked out over the Sussex weald from Desdemona's cave.
From Jan A Dog and a Romance by Norman Rockwell
She, the sovereign of the universe, reigns here too, over the buds and the birds, and the happy, unconsidered life of weald and wold.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
She served as Conservative MP for Maidstone and the Weald in Kent for 23 years and was appointed to ministerial roles in Sir John Major's government in the 1990s.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Helen Grant, who replaced Widdecombe as MP for Maidstone and the Weald in the 2010 general election, has written to the Speaker of the House of Commons for his support.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Pupils from years 11 to 13 at Sevenoaks School help to make ceramics and creative clay items in workshops run by the Hospice in the Weald in Pembury.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
The Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set in Ashdown Forest, an area of open heathland on the highest sandy ridges of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
The main mass of these rocks occupies the area inclosed between the North and South Downs, and forms the Valley of the Weald, whence they take their name.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray
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