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weald

  [weeld]
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–noun
wooded or uncultivated country.
Origin:
bef. 1150; ME weeld, OE weald forest; c. G Wald; cf. wold 1

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   (wēld)   
n.   Chiefly British

  1. A woodland.

  2. An area of open rolling upland.


[From Weald, a once-forested area in southeast England, from Old English wald, weald, forest.]
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Word Origin & History

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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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