wold

• POS: Noun

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.