WOLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wold mean? 

• WOLD (noun)
  The noun WOLD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WOLD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tract of open rolling country (especially upland)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("wold" is a kind of...):

country; rural area (an area outside of cities and towns)

 Context examples 

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

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating; crowds are scattering homeward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)