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
6 April 2025
(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
