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wealds

wealds is the plural of weald.

Meaning of weald

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

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Questions about wealds

What is wealds the plural of?
Wealds is the plural of weald.

Words near wealds in the dictionary

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

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