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Sold vs Wold - What's the difference?

sold | wold |

As nouns the difference between sold and wold

is that sold is income of a soldier, conscripts in military or other national service, and certain other professions while wold is an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.

sold

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • (sell)
    • Derived terms
    * oversold

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) solde. See soldier, and compare sou.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) solary; military pay
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms

    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 ----