Weald

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Weald \Weald\, n. [AS. See {Wold}.]
     A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open
     country; -- often used in place names.
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           Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald,


           And heard the spirits of the waste and weald
           Moan as she fled.                        --Tennyson.
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     {Weald clay} (Geol.), the uppermost member of the Wealden
        strata. See {Wealden}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  weald
       n : an area of open or forested country

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  60 Moby Thesaurus words for "weald":
     alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, bottomland, bushveld, campo,
     champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down,
     downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass veld,
     grassland, heath, lande, level, llano, lowland, lowlands,
     lunar mare, mare, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country,
     pampa, pampas, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie,
     salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, steppe, table,
     tableland, timber, timberland, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega,
     veld, wide-open spaces, wold, woodland, woods