WEALD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does weald mean? 

• WEALD (noun)
  The noun WEALD has 1 sense:

1. an area of open or forested country

  Familiarity information: WEALD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEALD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area of open or forested country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("weald" is a kind of...):

country; rural area (an area outside of cities and towns)

Domain region:

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)

 Context examples 

If we chose to roll upon our right sides, the whole weald lay in front of us, with the North Downs curving away in olive-green folds, with here and there the snow-white rift of a chalk-pit; if we turned upon our left, we overlooked the huge blue stretch of the Channel.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)