wold
(noun) a tract of open rolling country (especially upland)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wold (plural wolds)
(archaic, regional) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
(obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.
• 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.
wold (comparative wolder, superlative woldest)
(archaic, dialect, West Country, Dorset, Devon) Old.
• dowl, lowd, owld
Wold (plural Wolds)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Wold is the 6091st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5631 individuals. Wold is most common among White (93.77%) individuals.
• 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
2 May 2025
(noun) excavation consisting of a vertical or sloping passageway for finding or mining ore or for ventilating a mine
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
