wold
pronunciation
How to pronounce wold in British English:
UK [wəʊld]
How to pronounce wold in American English:
US [woʊld]
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- Noun:
- a tract of open rolling country (especially upland)
Word Origin
- wold (n.)
- Old English wald (Anglian), weald (West Saxon, Kentish) "forest, wooded upland," from Proto-Germanic *walthuz (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian wald, Middle Dutch woude, wold, Dutch woud, Middle Low German walde, Old High German wald, German Wald "forest," Swedish vall "pasture," Old Norse völlr "soil, field, meadow"), from PIE root *welt- "woods; wild." The sense development from "forested upland" to "rolling open country" (c. 1200) perhaps is from Scandinavian influence, or a testimony to the historical deforestation of Britain. Not current since mid-16c.; survives mainly in place names (such as Cotswold).
Example
- 1. We can only discover , accept and apply the wold we know of .
- 2. Don 't let the wold change your smile .
- 3. Change your words , change your wold .
- 4. International bank of reconstruction and development-the wold bank .
- 5. My father was the most important person in the wold to her .