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• a variation of veld.

veldt

American  

[velt] / vɛlt /

noun

• veldts
  plural

1. a variant of veld.

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veldt Scientific  

/ vĕlt,fĕlt /

1. An extensive, treeless grassland of southern Africa.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• veldts
  plural

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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."

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“Alex is in a cell,” the oldest man said, his voice as flat as the veldt stretching to the horizon.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2019

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

Looking closely I noticed the veldt was dotted with thousands of tiny yellow and purple buds, giving me a taste of what might be — weather willing.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2014

We were to meet at the base of a hill rising a few hundred yards across the veldt from Major Godley's.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton

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

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 Elliott Whitney

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 William Nelson Taft

All around were bare rocks and the dry sweltering veldts, covered only with round stones and red sand and low bushy vegetation.

From What's Bred in the Bone by Grant Allen

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