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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

She, the sovereign of the universe, reigns here too, over the buds and the birds, and the happy, unconsidered life of weald and wold.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden

Other themes, and perhaps the greater number, may occur indifferently first and second, e.g. beald, god, here, sige, weald, win, wulf or ulf.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

But we are not to climb it just now, having business in the weald some four miles away to the east, past Barlavington and Sutton, at Bignor.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur

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