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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.

weald

¹ American  

[weeld] / wild /

noun

1. wooded or uncultivated country.

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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.

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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

Amid the "weald" of Sussex, Mr. Kipling remained alive, did not sing.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

As you pass along you command a noble view of the wild, or weald, on one hand, and the broad downs and sea on the other. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry

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

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