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weald

   [weeld]
noun
wooded or uncultivated country.
Origin:
before 1150; Middle English weeld, Old English weald forest; cognate with German Wald; compare wold1

Can be confused: weald, wield.

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Weald

   [weeld]
noun
The, a region in SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and Essex counties: once a forest area; now an agricultural region.
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weald (wiːld)
 
—n
archaic (Brit) open or forested country
 
[Old English; related to Old Saxon, Old High German wald, Old Norse vollr, probably related to wild]

Weald (wiːld)
 
—n
the Weald a region of SE England, in Kent, Surrey, and East and West Sussex between the North Downs and the South Downs: formerly forested

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weald
O.E. (W.Saxon) weald "forest, woodland," specifically the forest between the North and South Downs in Sussex, Kent, and Surrey; a W.Saxon variant of Anglian wald (see wold).
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