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  weald

  noun

  wooded or uncultivated country.
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  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

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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

Then came an hour of hot sunshine, and the sudden view of the weald was of a sea of cloud.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Hugh Thomson

I had been asked to baptise it, and gave the name after a place in Sevenoaks which overlooks the wooded expanse of the Kentish weald.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

While film producers were keen to feature it, they first needed the train moved from North Weald, Essex, to the Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Epping Road, which connects Chipping Ongar with North Weald Bassett, was closed after the incident.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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

The variety known as Fuggle’s, a heavy-cropping though slightly coarse hop, has been much planted in the Weald of Kent, and in parts of Mid Kent where the soil is suitable.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

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