Weald

Word WEALD
Character 5
Hyphenation weald
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Weald"

What do we mean by weald?

A woodland. noun

An area of open rolling upland. noun

The name given in England to an oval-shaped area, bounded by a line topographically well marked by an escarpment of the Chalk, which begins at Folkestone Hill, near the Straits of Dover, and passes through the counties of Kent, Surrey, Hants, and Sussex, meeting the sea again at Beachy Head noun

Any open country. noun

A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names. noun

The uppermost member of the Wealden strata. See Wealden. noun

A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names. noun

An area of open or forested country noun

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The word "weald" in example sentences

Alighting at the small wayside station, we drove for some miles through the remains of widespread woods, which were once part of that great forest which for so long held the Saxon invaders at bay -- the impenetrable "weald," for sixty years the bulwark of Britain. ❋ Unknown (1990)

Wenger protests that his player is innocent of the charges against him, though the fact that Fábregas chooses to wear a vest will lead many to conclude that he is attempting to conceal the boiling weald of the succubus from a vigilant public. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Bronca is generally regarded to be a Latin American phenomenon, yet France's debut novel suggests that the rolling weald of East Sussex harbours its fair share of bronca as well. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It came up over the weald by night with a great wind. ❋ Newmania (2008)

He enjoyed the quiet rolling countryside of the weald; the pale, late autumn sun, the red and gold of thinning leaves on dark branches, the pools of red and gold below on the wet green turf. ❋ Ryan McDermott (2010)

Strange how you advocate that Britain should weald "a big stick" but castigate Israel for doing the same. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In weather like this, if my husband were still with me, we would not be trapped in one place, watching a leaden dawn and a sunset of dull red; we would be traveling with the king's court, on progress through the weald and downland of Hampshire and Sussex, the richest and most beautiful countryside in all of England, riding high on the hilly roads and looking out for the first sight of the sea. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The black and blue marks athwart the weald, which now barely is so stripped, indicate the presence of sylvious beltings. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Soon he got up again and stared for a long time it the sinking world below, at white cliffs to the east and flattening marsh to the left, at a minute wide prospect of weald and downland, at dim towns and harbours and rivers and ribbon-like roads, at ships and ships, decks and foreshortened funnels upon the ever-widening sea, and at the great mono-rail bridge that straddled the Channel from ❋ Herbert George (2006)

The view was indeed panoramic, a northerly outlook up to the beginnings of the dark weald. ❋ King, Laurie R. (2006)

No voice of man or beast, no whirr of traffic came up from the weald. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Part of the weald was visible, rich with colour on that sunny autumn day. ❋ Unknown (2004)

A chill was creeping on the air; the trees down in the weald had darkened and solidified; and the whitening sky seemed waiting for the sunset glow. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald ... ❋ Unknown (2004)

Each time, it turned out to be nothing more than some eccentric forest dweller, chuckling and chortling its way through the weald. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2001)

Below it the ground sloped gently away, permitting a magnificent view over the Sussex weald. ❋ Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 (1984)

In Bullokar's edition of 1688 I find, among many words marked as obsolescent: blithe, glee, lay (a song), lore, strand, weald, wold, wend and wreak. ❋ Unknown (1969)

It guarded on the east the strip of land between the South Downs and the sea; and when it fell before them, the Saxons became masters of the region to the north known then as Andredeslea, or Andredeswold, the forest or weald of Anderida. ❋ Hubert C. Corlette (N/A)

The light-witted birds of the air, the beasts of the weald and the wood ❋ Various (N/A)

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