weald

[ weeld ]

/ wild /

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noun

wooded or uncultivated country.

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Origin of weald

before 1150; Middle English weeld, Old English weald forest; cognate with German Wald; cf. wold¹

Can be confusedweald wield

Weald

[ weeld ]

/ wild /

noun

The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.

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Examples from the Web for weald

Section from the London to the Hampshire basin across the valley of the Weald.
A Manual of Elementary Geology|Charles Lyell.
There they could think how rich they were going to be back on Weald.
Pariah Planet|Murray Leinster
Calhoun hoped desperately that preparations for active warfare did not move fast on Weald.
This World Is Taboo|Murray Leinster
Travellers going west and north from the Weald were equally compelled, if they would avoid the ridge, to pass through Farnham.
The Old Road|Hilaire Belloc

A large part of the firmament was blotted out by the blindingly bright half-disk of Weald, as it shone in the sunshine.
Pariah Planet|Murray Leinster

British Dictionary definitions for weald

weald

/ (wiːld) /

noun

British archaic open or forested country

Word Origin for weald

Old English; related to Old Saxon, Old High German wald, Old Norse vollr, probably related to wild

Weald

/ (wiːld) /

noun

the Weald a region of SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and East and West Sussex between the North Downs and the South Downs: formerly forested

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Word Origin and History for weald

weald

Old English (West Saxon) weald "forest, woodland," specifically the forest between the North and South Downs in Sussex, Kent, and Surrey; a West Saxon variant of Anglian wald (see wold).