Weald
name, noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A forest or wood. archaic
- 2 an area of open or forested country wordnet
- 3 An open country. archaic
"[S]he to Almesbury / Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, / And heard the Spirits of the waste and weald / Moan as she fled, or thought she heard them moan: […]"
- 1 The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. British
Example
More examples"[S]he to Almesbury / Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald, / And heard the Spirits of the waste and weald / Moan as she fled, or thought she heard them moan: […]"
Etymology
From Middle English weeld, wæld, (also wold, wald > English wold), from (West Saxon dialect) Old English weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz. Compare German Wald, Dutch woud. See also wold, ultimately of the same origin. Largely displaced by forest.
From weald.
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