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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

We stood not still aforetime when England marched to war; Like those our wind-driven brothers, far seen o'er weald and fen, We ground the wheat and barley to feed stout Englishmen.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917 by Various

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

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

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