veld

noun

ˈvelt How to pronounce veld (audio)
variants or veldt
Definition of veldnext
as in prairie
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country lions prowling the African veld

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Recent Examples of veld Then the curse of the fathers found me — slow at first, like a rumor rolling over the veld, then sudden, like a snare snapping shut on bone. — Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026 The Rovos line in all its splendor—a vision of green and white carriages that draws the eye across the yellow veld—owes its existence to the foresight of South African Rohan Vos, who, back in 1989, took the business from unlikely dream to realization. — J.r. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023 Working with local landscape architect Dawid Klopper, the couple removed most of the non-native foliage and replaced it with indigenous plants more typical of South Africa’s veld, or grassland, like aloes and red grass. — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2021 There is still plenty of grassland here, or veld, as South Africans call it. — David McKenzie, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020 These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began. — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for veld
  1. prairie
  2. steppe
  3. plain
  4. grassland
  5. savanna
  6. pampa
Noun
  • Radical Change Several decades ago, in the dry prairies of eastern Washington, Pamela Soltis and Douglas Soltis began tracking a polyploidy event.
    — Carrie Arnold Contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The mission includes prairies, plains, and mountains, where helicopters need to fly over remote areas at any time of day.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of prairie
Noun
  • Kim, Ryzhikov and Zubritsky returned to Earth in December, touching down in their Soyuz on the steppe of Kazakhstan .
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The desire to see Russia as singularly the product of its steppe heritage ends up distorting and simplifying this history.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of steppe
Noun
  • The mission includes prairies, plains, and mountains, where helicopters need to fly over remote areas at any time of day.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Pleasure-seekers would travel by train to open prairies and plains to watch decommissioned locomotives crash into each other.
    — Caitlín Doherty, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of plain
Noun
  • Set in British Columbia’s Thompson Valley, the city is surrounded by rolling hills, rivers, and grasslands—a noticeable change from the coastal forests seen earlier in the day.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Today, the 558,000-acre reserve works to rehabilitate forests, grasslands, streams, and former mining areas while restoring native wildlife.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of grassland
Noun
  • The center of the activities was a grove, within a ring of trees, considered to be one of the oldest oak savannas in the state.
    — Gregory Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • With a glorious mane of glowing purple gas and dust, the Lion Nebula sparkles on the cosmic savanna in this new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of savanna
Noun
  • Hundreds, thousands of solar panels are distributed like macropixels among ravines, pampas, slopes, and wherever there’s room for them.
    — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
  • Participants travel by horseback to South American landscapes few people ever reach, from vast valleys and sweeping pampas to ancient lenga forests and high plateaus populated with condors.
    — Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 6 June 2026
Definition of pampa

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