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# wold

«wold» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **moor; open hills; upland** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

moor; open hills; upland

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A wide, open stretch of high, bare land with few trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wold/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer common; today we say moor, hills or upland.

### examples

- They hunted by field, and they hunted by wold; they drew the woods blank, and the scent didn't lie on the downs at all. (The Book of Dragons) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wold/#x1)
- “Wind, wind, gently sway, Blow Curdken’s hat away; Let him chase o’er field and wold Till my locks of ruddy gold, Now astray and hanging down, Be combed and plaited in a crown.” (The Blue Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wold/#x2)
- “Wind, wind, gently sway, Blow Curdken’s hat away; Let him chase o’er field and wold Till my locks of ruddy gold Now astray and hanging down, Be combed and plaited in a crown.” (The Blue Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wold/#x3)

### primary record

wold

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 4 (Torah 0, tales 4, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.5 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wold» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/W/wold/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.