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单词 wold
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woldn.

Brit. /wəʊld/, U.S. /woʊld/
Forms: α. Old English–1500s Scottish wald, Middle English walde, 1600s– dialect waud, 1700s dialect wadd, 1800s Scottish wauld. β. Middle English– wold, Middle English–1500s wolde, Middle English–1700s would, 1600s wowld, plural woles, 1700s woald. γ. 1500s–1600s old, 1600s ould. See also weald n.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Common Germanic (not extant in Gothic): Old English (Anglian) wald (West Saxon weald : see weald n.) strong masculine forest, wooded country = Old Frisian wald forest, Middle Dutch wout , woud- (Dutch woud ), Old Saxon wald forest, ? wilderness (Middle Low German, Low German wold ), Old High German wald forest, wilderness (Middle High German walt , wald- forest, wood, timber, German wald forest), Old Norse völlr untilled field, plain (Swedish vall pasture, Norwegian voll grassy plain) < Old Germanic *walþuz , of which the ulterior relations are doubtful. (From Germanic is derived Old French gua(l)d woodland, scrub, untilled land, whence gaudine bower, grove.) After the early 16th cent., the word ceased to be in general use and became restricted to localities in which it entered into the proper designation of characteristic tracts of country, probably at one time thickly wooded; thence arose the general literary (especially poetical) use defined in sense 3.
1. Forest, forest land; wooded upland. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land
wold786
frith?826
woodland869
woodc897
rough1332
foresta1375
firth?a1400
weald1544
bocage1644
parkland1649
bush1780
sylvanry1821
forestry1823
belting1844
rukh1856
treescape1885
bush1912
786 in Birch Cartul. Sax. (1885) I. 344 In limen wero wealdo, & in burh waro uualdo.
OE Judith 206 Þæs se hlanca gefeah wulf in walde, ond se wanna hrefn, wælgifre fugel.
a1225 St. Marher. 10 Wilde deor þet on þeos wilde waldes wunieð.
?13.. in Somner Roman Ports & Forts Kent (1693) 110 Septem Dennas in sylva quæ vocatur Wald.
?13.. in Somner Roman Ports & Forts Kent (1693) 113 Homines quoque de Walda debent unam domum æstivalem quod Anglicè dicitur Sumerhus, aut xx solidos dare.
c1300 in J. Stow Survey of London (1720) II. v. x. 193/1 (margin) Fabri de Waldis.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 3799 Þai droȝe furth be dissert & drinkles þai spill, Was nouthire waldis in þar walke ne water to fynde.
2. A hill, down. Obsolete.
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society > authority > control > [noun] > control and possession
wieldnesseOE
fathomOE
waldOE
wieldOE
wieldingOE
woldc1275
grip1508
gripe1532
graspa1616
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun]
cloudc893
downOE
hillc1000
penOE
holmc1275
woldc1275
clotc1325
banka1393
knotc1400
nipc1400
rist1577
kop1835
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > weld
waldOE
weldc1374
wild woada1425
wolda1500
base rocket1578
yellow-weed1597
weld seed1765
wild mignonette1861
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12855 Na whit heo ne funden quikes uppen wolden [c1300 Otho vp þan hulle].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10743 Childric com sone ouer wald liðen [c1300 Otho ouer dounes wende].
c1275 Passion our Lord 27 in Old Eng. Misc. 38 Þe holy gost hyne ledde vp into þe wolde For to beon yuonded of sathanas.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 938 Ðre der he toc, ilc ðre ger hold, And sacrede god on an wold.
1483 Cath. Angl. 406/2 Ye Walde, alpina.
a1500 Coventry Corpus Christi Plays 15/436 Hereby apon a wolde Scheppardis wachyng there fold.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xiii. 111 The travellour ȝond vnder the wald Lurkand wythdrawis to sum sovir hald.
1590 W. Camden Brit. (new ed.) 279 Cots Wold..Montes enim & colles Woulds olim dixerunt Angli, vnde Glossarium antiquum Alpes Italiæ The Woulds of Italie interpretatur.]
3.
a. A piece of open country; a plain; in early use (with the) sometimes = ‘the plain’, the ground, the earth; in later use chiefly, an elevated tract of open country or moorland; also collective plural or singular rolling uplands. (Frequent since c1600 in vague poetical use.)
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain
fieldeOE
wong971
field landOE
woldc1220
flat1296
plainc1325
field placec1384
champaign?a1400
floor?a1400
smeethc1440
plain-land1487
weald1544
champian1589
camp1605
level1623
campaign1628
planure1632
campania1663
esplanade1681
flatland1735
vlakte1785
steppe1837
c1220 Bestiary 606 Elpes..to-gaddre gon o wolde, So sep ðat cumen ut of folde.
c1220 Bestiary 757 Ilk der ðe him hereð to him cumeð, And foleȝeð him up one ðe wold.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10399 Þenne he bið baldest ufen-an þan walde [c1300 Otho wolde].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8215 Hengest bah a þene wald [c1300 Otho Hii wende in-to þan felde].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 4987 Stod þe wund-liche wude amidden ane wælde [c1300 Otho wolde].
1425 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 107 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 No man with comyn herd ne with sched herd com on the wold after gresse be mowen to it be maked and led away.
c1425 Cast. Persev. 826 in Macro Plays 102 Whyl he walkyth in worldly wolde, I, Bakbyter, am with hym holde.
1471 Hist. Arrivall Edw. IV (camden) 26 Aboute that place was a great and a fayre large playne, called a would.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 555 Thair fayis, vith thair mycht, noyand, Quhill to the wald cummyn war thai. Syne northwarde tuk thai hame thar way, And distroyit, in thair repair, The vale haly of beauvare.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. xi. 13 Rane..dois smyte apon the wald [L. humum].
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xix. 206/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I This may suffice for the vse of the word Wald, which now differeth much from Wold. For as that signifieth a woodie soile, so this betokeneth a soile without wood, or plaine champaine countrie, without anie store of trees.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 109 Swithald footed thrice the old.
1636 W. Denny in Ann. Dubrensia sig. C2v Faire fleec'd Sheepe, which beautifie the Woulds.
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol i. 237 On the bleak Woald the new-born Infant lay, Expos'd to Winter Snows.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iv. 161 Or who may dare on wold to wear The fairie's fatal green?
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxviii. 95 Till he..from his further bank Ætolia's wolds espied.
1832 Ld. Tennyson To J. S. i The wind, that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold.
a1845 R. H. Barham Blasphemer's Warning in Ingoldsby Legends (1847) 3rd Ser. 225 With broad lands, pasture, arable, woodland, and wold.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. Prel. 16 Between the forests were open wolds.
1905 A. C. Benson Thread of Gold iii Beyond all ran the long pure line of the rising wold.
b. figurative.
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1633 G. Herbert Pilgrimage in Temple iii That led me to the wilde of passion, which Some call the wold.
1654 B. Oley Some Notes of Publisher in T. Jackson Exact Coll. Wks. 3141 Though I have cut up in the Wolds of Gentilism, and layd together a Turf or two.
1876 L. Morris Epic of Hades ii. 39 The thick-leaved coverts vast And wind-worn wolds of life.
c. in alliterative conjunction with wood (occasionally with waste, wild).
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1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. xi. 30 On vent'rous quest to ride..by wood and wold.
1821 W. Scott Pirate II. xiii. 304 On they went, through wild and over wold.
1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline ii. iv The notes of the robin..Sounded sweet upon wold and in wood.
1896 J. Davidson Fleet St. Eclogues 2nd Ser. 70 And waste and wold Took heart and shone.
4. Used in the specific designations of certain hilly tracts in England, viz. the hill country of North Yorkshire and Humberside ( Yorkshire Wolds, †York(e)swold, †York-wolds), the Cotswold district, the hilly districts of Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > [noun]
downlandeOE
downOE
highlandOE
high country1445
wold1472
high ground1489
upland1566
hill-country1582
Chiltern1627
downs country1791
altitude1853
upwold1875
top-land1877
1472–5 Rolls of Parl. VI. 157/2 Fell called Shorlyng and Morlyng, growyng in Yorkeswold.
1548 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. (Surtees 1908) 202 My manor in Willoughby upon the woldes.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 408 Those large champaignes of Yorkswold, and Cotswolde.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 523 Part of it [sc. Leicestershire] is called the Wold, as being hilly without wood.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxvi. Argt. 115 Tow'rds Lester then her course shee holds, And sailing o'r the pleasant Oulds, Shee fetcheth Soare downe from her Springs.
1622 W. Burton Descr. Leicester Shire 296 Waltham on the Wouldes.
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 29 Most of the grasse that groweth on the landes, and especially on the leyes of the wolds, is a small, sparrie, and dry grasse.
1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1012 In some wooddy parts of the Woles in Lincoln-shire.
1697 G. Meriton Praise Yorks. Ale (ed. 3) 80 (East-Riding Yorks.) For Wolds or Woulds [they say] Wauds.
1725 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Duke of Portland (1901) VI. 95 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 676) XXXVI. i. 1 The Yorkshire Wolds, called here the Wadds.
1778 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) at Yorkshire A large tract called the York-Woulds.
1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 20 The north of Lincolnshire is..high and dry. It is called the ‘Wold’; but that does not mean big stones and heather. The Wold is not a moor; it is a succession of good turnip fields.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
wold-dweller n.
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1907 M. C. F. Morris Nunburnholme 12 The early Wold~dwellers.
wold-fire n.
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1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake ii. xi. 152 Like wold-fire, at midnight, that glares on the waste.
wold-hill n.
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1850 ‘Sylvanus’ Bye-lanes & Downs Introd. p. ix A view of pastures, turnip and corn-fields, and wold-hills, terminating in a distant glimpse of the ocean.
wold-land n.
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1799 Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 12 The wold land about Louth.
b.
wold-like adj.
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1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. iii. 49 Lands..wild and wold-like.
C2.
wold-mouse n. a vole.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Microtidae > genus Clethrionomys (vole)
vole1805
bank vole1837
red-backed mouse1865
red-backed vole1880
wold-mouse1892
Orkney vole1904
1892 Daily News 18 Nov. 5/1 Voles, or ‘wold-mice’.
woldsman n. a dweller in the wolds.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > north of England > Yorkshire
Yorkshireman1549
Yorker1599
wolder1765
woldsman1765
Yorkie1818
tyke1820
bite1883
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 xxx. 138 I am told by the experienced woldsmen, that there is as great difference as possible in the neatness of the making up the sheaves.
1895 Naturalist 322 The Louth woldsmen were in the habit of attending Lincoln [market].

Derivatives

ˈwolder n. (also Yorkshire wolder) an inhabitant of the Yorkshire wolds.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > north of England > Yorkshire
Yorkshireman1549
Yorker1599
wolder1765
woldsman1765
Yorkie1818
tyke1820
bite1883
1765 Museum Rusticum 4 xxx. 139 The experience of our Yorkshire wolders.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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