wold

[ wohld ]

noun

an elevated tract of open country.
Often wolds. an open, hilly district, especially in England, as in Yorkshire or Lincolnshire.

Origin of wold

First recorded before 900; Middle English wold(e), wald(e), weld(e) “forested land, woods, forest preserve,” Old English w(e)ald “high land covered with trees, forest”, cognate with Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old High German wald , German Wald “forest, woods”; akin to Old Norse vǫllr “field, plain, level ground”; see also weald, Weald

Words Nearby wold

Other definitions for wold (2 of 3)

wold²

[ wohld ]

noun

weld².

Other definitions for wold (3 of 3)

wold³

[ wawld ]

verbObsolete.

an obsolete past participle of will¹.

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How to use wold in a sentence

“Other people tried it, and had amazing results,” wold continues.
Longtime Sufferers of Cluster Headaches Find Relief in Psychedelics | Valerie Vande Panne | February 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
“We stress with everyone that they should discuss this with their doctor,” says wold.
Longtime Sufferers of Cluster Headaches Find Relief in Psychedelics | Valerie Vande Panne | February 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
According to wold, the National Institutes of Health has spent less than $2 million on studying cluster headaches in 25 years.
Longtime Sufferers of Cluster Headaches Find Relief in Psychedelics | Valerie Vande Panne | February 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Bob wold, 61, started getting the killer headaches 35 years ago.
Longtime Sufferers of Cluster Headaches Find Relief in Psychedelics | Valerie Vande Panne | February 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
And so, wold was “always on the look out for something better.”
Longtime Sufferers of Cluster Headaches Find Relief in Psychedelics | Valerie Vande Panne | February 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

The accents seem to fall on She and have, the e in wold-e being elided.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey Chaucer
If you go toward the south, there is Ashley-wold and grandmamma, Mrs. Galloway.
That Lass O' Lowrie's | Frances Hodgson Burnett
He's worth thousands and thousands, they say, though 'a do live on in the same wold way up in the same wold house.
The Well-Beloved | Thomas Hardy
The perfect form, rare beauty, intelligence, and wealth of wold did not startle an apprehension in my breast.
Wild Western Scenes | John Beauchamp Jones
wold exhibited his fine person and exerted all his captivating powers of intellect.
Wild Western Scenes | John Beauchamp Jones

British Dictionary definitions for wold (1 of 2)

wold¹

/ (wəʊld) /

noun

mainly literary a tract of open rolling country, esp upland

Origin of wold

Old English weald bush; related to Old Saxon wald, German Wald forest, Old Norse vollr ground; see wild

British Dictionary definitions for wold (2 of 2)

wold²

/ (wəʊld) /

noun

another name for weld 2

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