weald
noun
wooded or uncultivated country.
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[weeld]
/ wild /
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[weeld]
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/ 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
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Amid the "weald" of Sussex, Mr. Kipling remained alive, did not sing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
They are probably of all dates from prehistoric antiquity to the reign of the Tudors, after which the iron smelting of the weald came to an end.
From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
The air was so pleasant and the prospect so beautiful, the whole weald of Sussex lying before us in the evening light, that it was suggested we should hold our meeting there rather than indoors.
From A Modern Symposium by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)
I painted scenes in south-eastern England for my private view frequently now, scenes in cool greens and sober blues and restful grey scenes of weald and down-land, of hop-garden and country rectory.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Cripps, Arthur Shearly
The constituency of Maidstone and the Weald became Maidstone and Malling in 2024.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 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
Mr. Ellis attended the Harrow Weald County School, but dropped out at 16 to focus on his writing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
And there is an OBE for former sport minister Helen Grant, the Conservative MP for Maidstone and the Weald.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2022
Weald, a district comprising portions of Kent and Sussex, extending from Folkestone Hill near the Straits of Dover to Beachy Head.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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