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  • weald
    weald
    noun
    wooded or uncultivated country.
  • Weald
    Weald
    noun
    The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.
Synonyms

weald

1 American  
[weeld] / wild /

noun

  1. wooded or uncultivated country.

Weald 2 American  
[weeld] / wild /

noun

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

Weald 1 British  
/ wiːld /

noun

  1. 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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weald 2 British  
/ wiːld /

noun

  1. archaic open or forested country

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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

Namon �a to r�de, ��t him w�rlicor w�re, ��t h� sumne d�l heora landes wur�es �th�fdon, weald him getimode.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

Within eighteen or twenty minutes they were a good four miles from Nuthill and nearing the gap in the high ridge through which one looked out over the Sussex weald from Desdemona's cave.

From Jan A Dog and a Romance by Rockwell, Norman

From a remote antiquity this district of Surrey, as well as the weald of Sussex, was the great centre of the iron trade.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

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