Weald Definition

wēld
noun
A wooded area; forest.
Webster's New World
Wild open country.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(UK) The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.

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Other Word Forms of Weald

Noun

Singular:
weald
Plural:
wealds

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Weald

  • The Weald

Origin of Weald

  • From Old English weald, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz. Compare German Wald, Dutch woud. See also wold, ultimately of the same origin.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Weald a once-forested area in southeast England from Old English wald, weald forest

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From weald

    From Wiktionary

Weald Sentence Examples

  • In the district of the Weald marl prevails, with a substratum of clay.

  • The principal hop districts are the country between Canterbury and Faversham, the valley of the Medway in mid Kent, and the district of the Weald.

  • There were formerly extensive ironworks in the Weald.

  • In these hollows the Tertiary rocks were protected from erosion, and remain to form the London and the Hampshire Basins respectively, while on the anticlinal axis the whole of the Tertiary and the upper Cretaceous strata have been dissected away, and a complex and beautiful configuration has been impressed on the district of the Weald.

  • The gentle undulating ' Weald ' is dotted with hop fields and fat cattle graze in lush green meadows.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

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Words Starting With W and Ending With D

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