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wold
CIDE DICTIONARY
wold, n. [OE. wold, wald, AS. weald, wald, a wood, forest; akin to OFries. & OS. wald, D. woud, G. wald, Icel. völlr, a field, and probably to Gr. a grove, Skr. vāa a garden, inclosure. Cf. Weald.].
- A wood; a forest. [1913 Webster]
- A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. [1913 Webster]"And from his further bank Ætolia's wolds espied." [1913 Webster]"The wind that beats the mountain, blows
More softly round the open wold." [1913 Webster]
wold, n.
See Weld. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wold, n. a piece of high open uncultivated land or moor.
Etymology
OE wald f. Gmc, perh. rel. to WILD: cf. WEALD
ROGET THESAURUS
wold
Plain
N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.For further exploring for "wold" in Webster Dictionary Online