- a variation of veld.
veldt
Americannoun
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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."
Vocabulary lists containing veldt
African History - Introductory
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The high veldt rolled away, in shades of coffee and wheat.
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
The desired image, projected against a backdrop of veldt and dust, is always one of determined respectability.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
So your partner occasionally sounds like a lion on the veldt.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2012
As the rain continued the wind died down, until in the height of this storm it scarcely possessed the strength to dissipate the white mists which were rising from the veldt.
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
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
The khaki suits were designed to imitate the yellow veldts of South Africa; the gray-green garments of the German forces are designed to simulate the green fields of the north.
From Aeroplanes by James Slough Zerbe
In England there is an illimitable number of illimitable veldts.
From A Miscellany of Men by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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