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weald | wald |

As a proper noun weald

is (british) the physiographic area in south-east england situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the north and the south downs.

As a verb wald is

to govern; inherit.

As a noun wald is

power; strength or wald can be forest; woods.

weald

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names.
  • * Tennyson
    • Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald', / And heard the spirits of the waste and ' weald / Moan as she fled.

    Related terms

    * wold

    Anagrams

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    wald

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (Scotland)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) walden, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To govern; inherit.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wald, iwald, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Power; strength.
  • Command; control; possession.
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Forest; woods.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1812 , year_published= , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=Walter Scott , title=Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=124 , passage=… we still recognize the ancient traditions of the Goths, concerning the wald -elven,… }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1853 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Robert Simpson , title=History of Sanquhar , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=16 , passage=the romantic pass of the "wald path," along which runs a spur of an old Roman road }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1857 , year_published=2006 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=George Bradshaw , title=Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Switzerland and the Tyrol , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=1 , passage=MARDEN and STAPLEHURST—All this part of the line, through the Weald of Kent, i.e., the wald or forest, which still prevails here. }}

    References

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