wold Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Wold noun
Etymology
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. a grove, Skr. vaa a garden, inclosure. Cf. Weald.
Definitions
  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 noun
Definitions
  1. See Weld.

Webster 1913