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weald

/wiːld/US/wild/

weald noun: a forest or wood.

Noun

weald (plural wealds)

  1. (archaic) A forest or wood.
  2. (archaic) An open country.
    • [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: […]1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Guinevere”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 231

Proper noun capitalized: Weald

the Weald

  1. (UK) The physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.
  2. A hamlet in Bampton parish, West Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP3002).
  3. Former name of Sevenoaks Weald, a village in Kent, England; possibly still used as a synonym.

weald meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

weald in Tamil

பண்படுத்தப்படாத, பயிரிடப்படாத காடு, பரந்து விரிந்த திறந்தவெளி, மேட்டுநிலம், மானாவாரி

weald in Malayalam

കാട്, വെളിമ്പ്രദേശം, കാട്ടുപ്രദേശം

Forms of weald

pluralwealds

Origin of 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.

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Questions about weald

What does weald mean?
Weald means a forest or wood.
What is weald in Tamil?
Weald in Tamil is பண்படுத்தப்படாத, பயிரிடப்படாத காடு, பரந்து விரிந்த திறந்தவெளி. See Weald meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is weald?
Weald can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce weald?
Weald is pronounced /wiːld/ (UK).
What is the plural of weald?
The plural of weald is wealds.

Words near weald in the dictionary

  1. weakwilled
  2. weaky
  3. weal
  4. weal-public
  5. weal-publics
  6. weald
  7. Wealden
  8. wealdish
  9. wealds
  10. Wealdsman
  11. Wealdsmen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: weald (page history and authors); Weald (page history and authors); weald (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); weald (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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