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vale | wold |

As a verb vale

is to be worth.

As a noun wold is

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

vale

English

Etymology 1

(etyl), from (etyl) , from (etyl) vallis, valles

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mostly, poetic) A valley.
  • * (rfdate) Harte
    • In those fair vales , by nature formed to please, / Where Guadalquiver serpentines with ease
  • * , Hymn 214'', ''The Issues of Life and Death ,
    • Beyond this vale of tears / There is a life above,
  • * 19th c , ,
    • "Make me a cottage in the vale ," she said, / "Where I may mourn and pray.
    Synonyms
    * (valley) dale ** See also
    Antonyms
    * (valley) hill

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (usually, seen in obituaries) Farewell.
    • Vale , Sarah Smith
    Related terms
    * valediction * valiant

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms ----

    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 ----