weald
noun
wooded or uncultivated country.
weald
1 American
[weeld]
/ wild /
noun
Weald
2
American
[weeld]
/ wild /
noun
Weald
1
British
/ wiːld /
noun
weald
2
British
/ wiːld /
noun
Etymology
Origin of weald
before 1150; Middle English weeld, Old English weald forest; cognate with German Wald; cf. wold 1
Example Sentences
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The herald of the right and might of empire lies silent amid the weald and the marsh and the down country of Sussex.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amid the "weald" of Sussex, Mr. Kipling remained alive, did not sing.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "Fold Country" is the wild garden of the Surrey weald, and the month to walk in it is May.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
For soul and sense had waxed amort To wold and weald, to slade and stream; And all he heard was her soft word As one adream.
From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius
Describing her flight, he tells us that she sent Lancelot "Back to his land, but she to Almesbury Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald."
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various
The Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set in Ashdown Forest, an area of open heathland on the highest sandy ridges of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
Hastings is surrounded by the High Weald, an area of outstanding natural beauty, and situated among cliffs on the Sussex coast.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
The site was given planning permission to expand its operations in 2019, a decision that was challenged by Ms Finch, on behalf of Weald Action Group.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2024
Mr Ward was captaining North Weald Cricket Club, in the Herts and Essex Border League, when he dived and stopped a ball while fielding.
From BBC ● May 4, 2023
The greater erosion in their higher courses has cut away the mass of chalk from the centre of the Weald, but the rivers still flow in the direction determined when the arch was still entire.
From The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by Hughes, J. Cecil
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