wold

Meaning

Noun

1. An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
2. (obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.

Adj

Old.

Synonyms

heath

hollow

lowland

moor

ridge

ridgeline

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wəʊld/

Etymology

From Middle English wald, wold, from Old English wald, weald (“highland covered with trees, wood, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(ə)-t-. Doublet of weald.
Related terms
See also Norwegian voll (“field, meadow”), Welsh gwallt (“hair”), Lithuanian váltis (“oat awn”), Serbo-Croatian vlât (“ear (of wheat)”), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, “hairy”)); also the related term weald.