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veld

also veldt (vĕlt, fĕlt)

Any of the open grazing areas of southern Africa.

[Afrikaans, from Middle Dutch, field; see pelə- in Indo-European roots.]

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veld

(fɛlt; vɛlt) or

veldt

(Physical Geography) elevated open grassland in Southern Africa. See also bushveld, highveld, renosterveld Compare pampas, prairie, steppe

[C19: from Afrikaans, from earlier Dutch veldt field]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

veld

or veldt

(vɛlt, fɛlt)

n.

the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of S Africa.

[1795–1805; < Afrikaans < Dutch: field]

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veld - elevated open grassland in southern Africa

veldt

grassland - land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life

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Veld

степь

veld

veldt [velt] N → veld m (meseta esteparia sudafricana)

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veld

, veldt

n (in South Africa) → Steppe f

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veld

veldt [vɛlt] n the veld → l'altopiano sudafricano

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We waited a long while, till at last the woman came up to us and sank down on the veldt, for she was very weary.

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It was a day of rest, our first for weeks, but Raffles and I spent no small part of it in seeking high and low for a worthy means of quenching the kind of thirst which used to beset Yeomen and others who had left good cellars for the veldt. The old knack came back to us both, though I believe that I alone was conscious of it at the time; and we were leaving the house, splendidly supplied, when we almost ran into the arms of an infantry officer, with a scowl upon his red-hot face, and an eye-glass flaming at us in the sun.

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He went to sleep and dreamt that he was suddenly sound of foot and out at the Cape in a regiment of Yeomanry; the pictures he had looked at in the illustrated papers gave materials for his fancy; and he saw himself on the Veldt, in khaki, sitting with other men round a fire at night.