wold UK /wəʊld/US /woʊld/noun 2adjective 1forms 3 noun2 •(no longer used) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.Saint Withold footed thrice the ’old; He met the nightmare, and her nine fold — 1603 •(no longer used) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland. adjective1 •(dialect, no longer used) Old."[A] girt wind had a-blowed the wold tree auver, so that his head were in the water." — 1873 formswolds · wolder · woldest