Wold vs Moore - What's the difference?
wold | moore |
An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
(obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland
* Byron
* Tennyson
Many toponymic place names, or parts of place names, derived from moor.
An English and Irish surname similarly derived.
As a noun wold
is an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.As an adverb moore is
more.wold
English
Noun
(en noun)- And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.
- The wind that beats the mountain, blows / More softly round the open wold .