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
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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
There is really nothing very "wild" about them now; cultivation has turned them into excellent pasturage; the epithet, too, is a corruption of weald, signifying a wood.
From Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by W. (William) Houghton
Could none of the foresters of the weald have helped a great tree better in its old age?
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson
Over the weald a great aeroplane droned to the sea.
From The Green Rust by Edgar Wallace
Widdecombe served as MP for Maidstone and The Weald for more than two decades until 2010.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
It had set off from North Weald Airfield on "what was expected to be a short journey," Det Ch Supt Morgan Cronin said.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Pupils from years 11 to 13 at Sevenoaks School help to make ceramics and creative clay items in workshops run by the Hospice in the Weald in Pembury.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
Palmer served half his sentence, and in 2009, he moved in with partner Christina Ketley and their son at South Weald.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2025
We have taken the redoubt at North Weald Basset and driven the English back into the belt of burnt woodland, which they now hold along its northern edge.
From The Invasion by William Le Queux
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