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pax | wold |

As a proper noun pax

is latin name given to several peacetimes in human history.

As a noun wold is

an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.

pax

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) pax peace. See (peace).

Noun

  • A painted, stamped or carved tablet with a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which was kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace") and then passed to other officiating clergy and the congregation to be kissed. See also osculatory.

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A cry for peace or truce in children's games.

    • Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of passenger''. ''X'' is an abbreviation marker as in ''DX'', ''TX'' and ''canx .

    Noun

    (pax)
  • (informal, usually, in the plural) passenger; passengers
  • (informal, usually, in the plural, by extension, hospitality industry) guest (at an event or function)

    • Anagrams

    * English invariant nouns ----

    wold

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
  • (obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland
  • * Byron
    • And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.
  • * Tennyson
    • The wind that beats the mountain, blows / More softly round the open wold .

    Usage notes

    * Used in many English place-names, always hilly tracts of land. * Wald'' (German) is a cognate, but a false friend because it retains the original meaning of ''forest .

    Derived terms

    * Cotswolds * (Lincolnshire Wolds) * wolder * (Yorkshire Wolds)

    Related terms

    * (l)

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 ----