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wold

wold

1 9.9
An area of open, gently rolling high land with few trees
  • noun
  • /woʊld/
  • Archaic
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  • All of the content I've covered so far hasn't just been good; it's been epic: mounted combat, 7.2, the first series of quests in The Wold, the new landscapes, the new music, the new mobs.

Examples

  • lt wold ruin the whole thing.

  • The men of the Wold stand ready to fight.

  • You are living in a wold of guilt.

  • I will take your life there in order for it to be a lesson to the entire wold

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  • It ended up being a cave in the western foothills of the Wold, west of the swamps.

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  • The hikers enjoyed the breathtaking views as they walked across the rolling wold in the countryside.

  • We spent the afternoon exploring the open wold, where wildflowers blanketed the ground.

  • The vast wold stretched out before us, a picturesque landscape of gentle hills and grazing sheep.

Synonyms

heath
vswold
  • UK
3 7.2

An open area of land with low shrubs and coarse grass on sandy soil

is broader rolling upland often treeless rather than shrubby ground
fell
vswold
  • UK
1 8.0

A high open hill with few trees, often in northern England

is gentler rolling upland rather than steep high ground
veld
vswold
  • South African
1 9.9

An open, grassy plain with few trees in southern Africa

is a rolling upland area in Britain rather than a flat plain
downland
vswold
  • UK
7.5

An area of open chalk hills covered in grass

is more general rolling upland not limited to chalk geology
weald
vswold
  • UK
9.9

An area of open or wooded land with hills and trees

is mainly treeless rolling upland rather than wooded country
heathland
vswold
8.6

Open land with low bushes like heather and poor sandy soil

is higher rolling upland not mainly low shrub vegetation

How Hilly

hill
1.0
wold
  • Archaic
1 9.9
moor
  • UK
17 5.8
heath
  • UK
3 7.2
plain
98 1.0

Surface Forms

wold singular
wolds plural

Etymology

The word wold comes from an old English root wald that meant 'forest' or 'wood', and it is related to the common word wood. Over time the word came to mean the open, high land where trees were cleared, so a wold is now a rolling upland often without trees.