Wold
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /wəʊld/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wold is a noun meaning (archaic, regional) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
Meaning
(archaic, regional) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.
- (archaic, dialect, West Country, Dorset, Devon) Old.
Example Sentences
The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold,
Saint Withold footed thrice the ’old; He met the nightmare, and her nine fold;
Blossomed the opening spring, and the notes of the robin and bluebird Sounded sweet upon wold and in wood, yet Gabriel came not.
Before yon field of trembling gold Is garnered into dusty sheaves, Or ere the autumn’s scarlet leaves Flutter as birds adown the wold, […]
Word Forms
- wolds
- wolder
- woldest
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stow, chamberlain, world, weald, wild, wildernesse.
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