veldt
Americannoun
plural
veldtsExplanation
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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Example Sentences
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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
“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
So your partner occasionally sounds like a lion on the veldt.
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2012
Across the veldt, those who cared, might have seen the enemy engaged upon some enormous earthwork, which the general consensus of opinion very quickly determined to be the emplacements for the siege guns.
From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus
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