Crossword clues for wold
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weld \Weld\ (w[e^]ld), n. [OE. welde; akin to Scot. wald, Prov. G. waude, G. wau, Dan. & Sw. vau, D. wouw.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wald (Anglian), weald (West Saxon, Kentish) "forest, wooded upland," from Proto-Germanic *walthuz (cognates: Old Saxon and Old Frisian wald, Middle Dutch woude, wold, Dutch woud, Middle Low German walde, Old High German wald, German Wald "forest," Swedish vall "pasture," Old Norse völlr "soil, field, meadow"), from PIE root *welt- "woods; wild." The sense development from "forested upland" to "rolling open country" (c.1200) perhaps is from Scandinavian influence, or a testimony to the historical deforestation of Britain. Not current since mid-16c.; survives mainly in place names (such as Cotswold).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor. 2 (context obsolete English) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland
WordNet
n. a tract of open rolling country (especially upland)
Wikipedia
Wold is an Old English term for a forest or an area of woodland on high ground; it is cognate with the Dutch word woud and with the German word Wald, as well as low German Wohld, all meaning forest. It became weald in West Saxon and Kentish.
Wold may also refer to:
- Wold (surname)
- The Wolds, a term used in England to describe a range of hills consisting of open country overlying limestone or chalk (see Wood and Wald)
- The former name of the village of Old, Northamptonshire, England
- The Wold, an area north of Rohan, in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
- "WOLD" (song), a hit single by Harry Chapin
- WOLD-FM, an American radio station licensed to Marion, Virginia
- WOLD-LP, a low-power radio station (107.9 FM) licensed to serve Woodbridge, New Jersey, United States
- WITM, an American radio station licensed as "WOLD" from 1962 to 2006
"W·O·L·D" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin. The song is about an aging disc jockey who travels the United States seeking happiness, which he believes he will find by following his passion for being a radio broadcaster, only to discover that his life, looks, and voice have passed him by, as hinted in the OLD of the title.
The song is sung through the point of view of a phone call conversation from the DJ to his ex-wife, only hearing what he has to say to her. The lyrics go on to reveal that perhaps we can never change who we really are and that what he had really wanted was the love and companionship that had eluded him in a previous failed relationship. The song is said to have help inspire the premise of the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati, including the lyrics of the theme song in which a DJ seems to speak to a former lover about his travels in his occupation --now he's "living in the air in Cincinnati...got tired of packing and unpacking, town to town, up and down the dial."
Wold is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Eddie Wold, American bridge player
- Erling Wold (born 1958), American composer
- Herman Wold (1908–1992), Swedish statistician
- John S. Wold (born 1916), American politician
- Susse Wold (born 1938), Danish actress
- Terje Wold (1899–1972), Norwegian politician
Usage examples of "wold".
All familiar scenes anear Disappear-- Homestead, orchard, field, and wold.
Bishop of Leightyn in the towr, for that he wold not shew his farder interest to Nangle: he sayd that after I had seen his brode seal of commendation, that I had institution and induction to the Nangle.
I cam to her at three quarters of the clok afternone, and she sayd she wold send me something to kepe Christmas with.
I had on the Sunday abowt 7 of the clok afternone the cramp most extremely in the very centre of the calves of both my legs, and in the place where I had the suddeyn grief on Bartilmew-even last I had payn so intollerable as yf the vaynes or artheries wold have broken by extreme stretching, or how els I cannot tell.
When the words are spoken, you lift the curdler, seeing Wold doing the same, but faster, more surely.
Your Aunt and Harry Whent to the Wells Races and Spent a very Pleasant Day your Aunt has Lost Old Fanney Sow She Died about a Week a Go Harry he Wanted your Aunt to have her killed and send her to London and Shee Wold Fech her 11 pounds the Farmers have Lost a Greet Deal of Cattel such as Hogs and Cows What theay call the Plage I Whent to your Aunt as you Wish Mee to Do But She Told Mee She Did not wont aney Boddy She Told Mee She Should Like to Come up to see you But She Cant Come know for she is Boddyley ill and Harry Donte Work there know But he Go up there Once in Two or Three Day Harry Offered is self to Go up to Live With your Aunt But She Made him know Ancer.
I hope your time is not so precious but that you will allow my Lady and myself to offer you the hospitality of Chesney Wold, for tonight at least.
Booth sayd that he wold yeld that to me that he wold not yeld to the bisshop nor any other.
Clerkson ill things of me that I should mak his frend, as that he was wery of me, that I wold so flatter his frende the lerned man that I wold borow him of him.
This they promised uppon condition I wold be bownd to them to see them repayd agayn.
On their right stretched the rocky wolds of the Valverras, and on the left the Caln Marish, with the same rattling stands of black reeds that they had seen before they entered Edinur.
At Norton Wold they would not have to ask the control tower for permission to approach and overshoot on a runway.
In each of these is there coined money, both white and red, and some deal of gold uncoined, and of rings and brooches a few, and by estimation there is in each bag the same value reckoned in lawful silver of Upmeads and the Wolds and the Overhill-Countries.
As Sir Leicester basks in his library and dozes over his newspaper, is there no influence in the house to startle him, not to say to make the very trees at Chesney Wold fling up their knotted arms, the very portraits frown, the very armour stir?
And legend says that when he reached the verdant valley of the River Coln, he paused on a swath of bottomland which rolled out to meet the wolds like a lush green carpet.