weald
noun
wooded or uncultivated country.
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[weeld]
/ wild /
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[weeld]
/ wild /
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British
/ wiːld /
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weald
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/ wiːld /
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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
But we are not to climb it just now, having business in the weald some four miles away to the east, past Barlavington and Sutton, at Bignor.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs
Inland spreads the undulant vastness of the sheep-spotted downs; beyond them the tillage and the woods of Sussex weald, coloured like to the pure sky above them, but in deeper tint.
From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
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
While film producers were keen to feature it, they first needed the train moved from North Weald, Essex, to the Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
Palmer served half his sentence, and in 2009, he moved in with partner Christina Ketley and their son at South Weald.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2025
The site was given planning permission to expand its operations in 2019, a decision that was challenged by Ms Finch, on behalf of Weald Action Group.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024
I should have thought your best way would have been by Bilsington, and so straight into the Weald.
From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
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