veld

• veldt

Borrowed from Afrikaans veld, from Dutch veld, veldt (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *fulþuz, *felþą. Doublet of field.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /vɛlt/, /vɛld/, /fɛlt/

veld (plural velds)

1. The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries.
   • 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage 1998, p. 79:

     Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 11:

     From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.

   • 2007, January 14, “Caroline Elkins”, in A Life Exposed‎:

     For Holmes, Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

• Highveld
• Lowveld

• bushveld
• grassveld
• sandveld
• thornveld

From Dutch veld, from Middle Dutch velt, from Old Dutch feld, felt, from Proto-Germanic *felþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-.

veld (plural velde, diminutive veldjie)

1. field, open country
2. patch or grass and/or other small plants
3. veld, the open grassland of South Africa and neighboring countries
4. sports field

• grasveld

• → English: veld

From Middle Dutch velt, from Old Dutch felt, from Proto-Germanic *felþą, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-.

• IPA^(key): /vɛlt/
• Rhymes: -ɛlt

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• Hyphenation: veld

veld n (plural velden, diminutive veldje n)

1. field, open country
2. patch or grass and/or other small plants
3. agricultural field

   Synonym: akker

4. sports field
5. (physics) field (physical phenomenon pervading an area)
6. field, domain of knowledge

• Afrikaans: veld
  • → English: veld

veld

1. Alternative form of feeld