wold

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an open, rolling tract of upland country, especially one used as a regional name in England

   From the ridge they could see sheep grazing across the wold.

2. 2
   noun

   a wood or forest, especially on high ground, in historical use

   The old poem describes hunters disappearing into the wold.

From Middle English wald or wold and Old English weald ("forest or wooded highland"), from a Germanic word also seen in German Wald. In English the landscape sense shifted from wooded high ground to open rolling upland; weald is a doublet.

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