WOLD

wold

(noun) a tract of open rolling country (especially upland)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

wold (plural wolds)

(archaic, regional) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.

(obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.

Usage notes

• Used in many English place-names, always hilly tracts of land.

• Wald (German) is a cognate, but a false friend because it retains the original meaning of forest.

Etymology 2

Adjective

wold (comparative wolder, superlative woldest)

(archaic, dialect, West Country, Dorset, Devon) Old.

Anagrams

• dowl, lowd, owld

Proper noun

Wold (plural Wolds)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wold is the 6091^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5631 individuals. Wold is most common among White (93.77%) individuals.

Anagrams

• dowl, lowd, owld

Source: Wiktionary

Wold, n. Etym: [OE. wold, wald, AS. weald, wald, a wood, forest; akin to OFries. & OS. wald, D. woud, G. wald, Icel. völlr, a field, and probably to Gr. va a garden, inclosure. Cf. Weald.]

1. A wood; a forest.

2. A plain, or low hill; a country without wood, whether hilly or not. And from his further bank Ætolia's wolds espied. Byron. The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold. Tennyson.

Wold, n.

Definition: See Weld.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition