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weald

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weald  (wld)
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.]

weald [wiːld]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Brit archaic open or forested country
[Old English; related to Old Saxon, Old High German wald, Old Norse vollr, probably related to wild]

Weald [wiːld]
n
(Placename) the. 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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Noun1.weald - an area of open or forested country
rural area, country - an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"
Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom


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Though it must be admitted that the denudation of the Weald has been a mere trifle, in comparison with that which has removed masses of our palaeozoic strata, in parts ten thousand feet in thickness, as shown in Prof.
William Caxton, as he himself tells us, was born in Kent in the Weald.
These woods are locally supposed to be the extreme fringe of the great Weald forest, which thins away until it reaches the northern chalk downs.
 
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