- a variation of veld.
veldt
Americannoun
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Explanation
A veldt is a wide, grassy plain found in southernmost Africa. Some areas of veldt are used as farmland, while other parts are home to wildlife preserves. You can visit a veldt, or veld, by traveling to South Africa or Zimbabwe. While you won't see many trees in a veldt, there are plenty of low-lying plants, bushes, and grass. The word is Afrikaans in origin, from the Dutch veld, or "field," and it's commonly used this way in South Africa — there are Highveld and Lowveld areas, as well as rugby fields called "rugbyveldt" and sandy fields known as "sandyveldt."
Vocabulary lists containing veldt
African History - Introductory
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In his public appearances, Berger often shows a photograph of the golden high veldt and tells audiences, “When I look at that, I see Swiss cheese.”
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016
Also, square cars getting rounder, with Land Rover smoothing out its distinct boxy corners, ideal for the African veldt, to look like everything else.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2015
“In my mind, there was somebody roaring across the African veldt in a Jeep with a DVD beside him, past lions,” Mr. Sanders said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2014
I'd see Mom fly past, then Faith, Doreen, Steven, Barbara, your mom, John, out of the window, over the barbed-wire fence, over the next fence into the veldt and under a thorn tree.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
Until that moment there had been no sign of any living thing about the veldt between us and the Boer lines, and there was no sound.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus
In Oregon’s Willamette Valley, annual bouts of fall fire created veldts, typically 10 to 20 acres in size, of nearly pure camas lily, which have tasty roots that Kalapuya families gathered and stored for winter.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 17, 2020
First, in the deserts and veldts arose oral culture, the culture of the spoken word.
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
And we learn to love the great mountains and rich forests and unfenced steppes and veldts and prairies.
From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir
That's characteristic of the cobra family, and this specimen—common to the veldts of South Africa where he is known as the 'sheep stinger'—is first cousin to the big king cobras.
From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by Taft, William Nelson
These were scattered with patches of dense forest and jungle, but there were also great plains or veldts covered with game and animal life.
From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Whitney, Elliott
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