Wold vs Meadow - What's the difference?
wold | meadow |
An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
(obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland
* Byron
* Tennyson
A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.
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As nouns the difference between wold and meadow
is that wold is an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor while meadow is a field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.As a proper noun Meadow is
a town in Texas.wold
English
Noun
(en noun)- And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.
- The wind that beats the mountain, blows / More softly round the open wold .
Usage notes
* 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 .Derived terms
* Cotswolds * (Lincolnshire Wolds) * wolder * (Yorkshire Wolds)References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 ----meadow
English
(wikipedia meadow)Noun
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The Fraught History of a Watery World, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}