Definitions for Wolds

Wolds wold

Spelling: [wohld]
IPA: /woʊld/

Wolds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in Wolds (dlosw).

Definitions for Wolds

noun

  1. an elevated tract of open country.
  2. Often, wolds. an open, hilly district, especially in England, as in Yorkshire or Lincolnshire.
  3. weld2 .

Origin of Wolds

before 900; Middle English; Old English w(e)ald forest; cognate with German Wald; akin to wild, Old Norse vǫllr plain

Examples for Wolds

The "wolds" of north England are like the "downs" of the south.

On the south are the wolds of the Negeb plateau, with the plains of Beersheba beyond.

The heather was not in blossom, but the breath of spring sweetened the wolds.

Out on the wolds Diggon and the peddler had built a fire to warm a new-born lamb.

The low hills were not yet cleared, nor the fens and the wolds trimmed and enclosed.

I fear to think of her, off on the wolds near that horrid place.

Such a cry will often haunt the moors and wolds from above at nightfall.

I did not see the fens of Lincolnshire nor the wolds of York.

The summer in the wolds, so long looked forward to, was over.

Tell the ladies to fly with the children to Driffield in the wolds.

Word Value for Wolds
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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