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The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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A hamlet in Bampton parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3002).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Former name of Sevenoaks Weald, a village in Kent, England; possibly still used as a synonym.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A forest or wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
An open country.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
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noun
an area of open or forested country
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: country, rural area
History
From weald.
From Middle English wald, walde, weld, welde, wold, wolde, woolde, wæld, from Old English wald, weald, from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz (“forest”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to perceive, see”) or *welH- (“to roll, undulate”). Largely displaced by forest. Cognates Compare North Frisian wald, walt (“forest”), Saterland Frisian Woold (“forest”), West Frisian wâld (“forest”), Alemannic German and German Wald (“forest, woods”), Bavarian Woid (“forest, woods”), Cimbrian balt (“forest, woods”), Dutch woud (“forest, woods”), Low German Woold, Woolt (“forest”), Luxembourgish Wal (“forest”), Mòcheno bòlt (“wood, woodland”), Yiddish וואַלד (vald, “forest”), Danish val (“plain”), vold (“field, meadow”), Faroese vøllur (“lawn; field”), Icelandic völlur (“lawn; field”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk voll (“meadow”), Swedish vall (“field, pasture”); also Hittite 𒌑𒂊𒂖𒇻𒍑 (ú-e-el-lu-uš, “meadow, pasture”). See also wald, wold, ultimately of the same origin.
