weald
noun
wooded or uncultivated country.
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[weeld]
/ wild /
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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
Example Sentences
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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
From a remote antiquity this district of Surrey, as well as the weald of Sussex, was the great centre of the iron trade.
From The Broom-Squire by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
The "Fold Country" is the wild garden of the Surrey weald, and the month to walk in it is May.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
Contented then, he walked to the mouth of the cave and lay down there, gazing out reflectively across the green ridge to the far-off Sussex weald.
From Jan A Dog and a Romance by Norman Rockwell
The constituency of Maidstone and the Weald became Maidstone and Malling in 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
It had set off from North Weald Airfield on "what was expected to be a short journey," Det Ch Supt Morgan Cronin said.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Mr Ward was captaining North Weald Cricket Club, in the Herts and Essex Border League, when he dived and stopped a ball while fielding.
From BBC ● May 4, 2023
The father-of-three, from North Weald, Essex, has made a remarkable recovery since an operation in November.
From BBC ● May 4, 2023
The greater erosion in their higher courses has cut away the mass of chalk from the centre of the Weald, but the rivers still flow in the direction determined when the arch was still entire.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes
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