See veld in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1885, attributed to Jules Verne, “One for the Frenchman”, in [anonymous], transl., The Vanished Diamond: A Tale of South Africa, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 4:",
"text": "Around, as far as the eye can see, there stretches the bare and dreary-looking plain. The Veld, as this plain is called, has a reddish soil, dry, barren, and dusty, with here and there at considerable intervals a straggling bush or a clump of thorn-shrubs.",
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"ref": "1894 February 6, Henry Thomas Greef (plaintiff), J. D. Sheil (reporter), “Greef v. Van der Westhuysen”, in Reports of All Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope, During the Months of January, February and March, 1894. […], volume IV, part I, Cape Town: […] “Cape Times” office, […], →OCLC, page 28, column 2:",
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"ref": "1902 January 3, H[erbert] Watkins-Pitchford, “The Queensland Redwater Immune Cattle”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume IV, number 22, Maritzburg: The Times Printing and Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 678, column 2:",
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"ref": "1902 March 4, Joseph Chamberlain, “South African War.—Concentration Camps.”, in The Parliamentary Debates (Authorised Edition), Fourth Series, Third Session of the Twenty-seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland […] (House of Commons), volume CIV, London: Wyman and Sons, […] [for] His Majesty’s Stationery Office, →OCLC, column 435:",
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"ref": "1912, F[rancis] Bancroft, chapter III, in The Veldt Dwellers, 3rd edition, London: Hutchinson & Co. […], →OCLC, book IV, page 296:",
"text": "And Thane nodded and staggered blindly upward, only to sag again in a heap upon the veldt.",
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"ref": "1994, Nelson Mandela, chapter 2, in Long Walk to Freedom, London: Abacus, published 2010, →ISBN, page 11:",
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"ref": "1995, Malyn [D. D.] Newitt, “The Interior South of the Zambesi in the Sixteenth Century”, in A History of Mozambique, Bloomington, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 31:",
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"ref": "2007 January 14, Caroline Elkins, “A life exposed”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-20:",
"text": "For [Rachel] Holmes, [Sarah] Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape.",
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"ref": "2018, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, “Ruins”, in Keys in the River: New and Collected Stories, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe: Mwanaka Media and Publishing, →ISBN, page 60:",
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"ref": "1879, K. J., “CAPE COLONY”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9th edition, volume V, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, →OCLC, page 42, column 1:",
"text": "The pastoral lands or \"velds,\" which extend chiefly around the outer slopes and in the east, are distinguished according to the nature of the grass or sedge which they produce as \"sweet\" or \"sour.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1885, attributed to Jules Verne, “One for the Frenchman”, in [anonymous], transl., The Vanished Diamond: A Tale of South Africa, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 4:",
"text": "Around, as far as the eye can see, there stretches the bare and dreary-looking plain. The Veld, as this plain is called, has a reddish soil, dry, barren, and dusty, with here and there at considerable intervals a straggling bush or a clump of thorn-shrubs.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1894 February 6, Henry Thomas Greef (plaintiff), J. D. Sheil (reporter), “Greef v. Van der Westhuysen”, in Reports of All Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope, During the Months of January, February and March, 1894. […], volume IV, part I, Cape Town: […] “Cape Times” office, […], →OCLC, page 28, column 2:",
"text": "I have a piece of veld on Doornfontein. It is a reserved veld. A small river runs here. It is the best grazing on my farm, being very sweet. I reserve it for my cattle.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1902 January 3, H[erbert] Watkins-Pitchford, “The Queensland Redwater Immune Cattle”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume IV, number 22, Maritzburg: The Times Printing and Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 678, column 2:",
"text": "Viewed from a practical point of view there seems no reason to think that these animals will fail to withstand the conditions of the Natal veld.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1902 March 4, Joseph Chamberlain, “South African War.—Concentration Camps.”, in The Parliamentary Debates (Authorised Edition), Fourth Series, Third Session of the Twenty-seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland […] (House of Commons), volume CIV, London: Wyman and Sons, […] [for] His Majesty’s Stationery Office, →OCLC, column 435:",
"text": "[W]e found vast numbers of Boer women and children would be left unprotected on the veldt.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1912, F[rancis] Bancroft, chapter III, in The Veldt Dwellers, 3rd edition, London: Hutchinson & Co. […], →OCLC, book IV, page 296:",
"text": "And Thane nodded and staggered blindly upward, only to sag again in a heap upon the veldt.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1979, André Brink, chapter 1, in A Dry White Season, 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, published 1980, →ISBN, part 2, page 79:",
"text": "Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Nelson Mandela, chapter 2, in Long Walk to Freedom, London: Abacus, published 2010, →ISBN, page 11:",
"text": "From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Malyn [D. D.] Newitt, “The Interior South of the Zambesi in the Sixteenth Century”, in A History of Mozambique, Bloomington, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 31:",
"text": "South of the Zambesi, the frontier-line separates the high veldt and the low veldt regions, the line itself sometimes running along the crest and sometimes through the middle of the broken escarpment where the high granite tablelands break down towards the sea.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007 January 14, Caroline Elkins, “A life exposed”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-20:",
"text": "For [Rachel] Holmes, [Sarah] Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Tendai Rinos Mwanaka, “Ruins”, in Keys in the River: New and Collected Stories, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe: Mwanaka Media and Publishing, →ISBN, page 60:",
"text": "In the flatness of the veldts, one would want to communicate with someone else in order to provide theme and variation to the unbounded and unfettered thoughts stretching outward, inspired by the immense sameness of this place.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"The open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries."
],
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[
"open",
"open#Adjective"
],
[
"grassland",
"grassland"
],
[
"pastureland",
"pastureland"
],
[
"South Africa",
"South Africa"
],
[
"neighbouring",
"neighboring#Adjective"
],
[
"countries",
"country"
]
],
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"(chiefly South Africa) The open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries."
],
"tags": [
"South-Africa"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɛlt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/vɛld/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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]
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛld"
}
],
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{
"tags": [
"dated"
],
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}
],
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{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "veld",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "վելդ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "veld",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "велд"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pastvina"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "grasland"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "veldi",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "ველდი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Veld"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "voskótopos",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "βοσκότοπος"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "ולד"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "vĕlḍ",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "वॅल्ड"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "veldas"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "veld",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "велд"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "veld"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "veld",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "велд"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "feld",
"sense": "open grassland or pastureland of South Africa and neighbouring countries",
"word": "фелд"
}
],
"word": "veld"
}
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