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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; 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

Inland spreads the undulant vastness of the sheep-spotted downs; beyond them the tillage and the woods of Sussex weald, coloured like to the pure sky above them, but in deeper tint.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

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

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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