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Definition: Veld |
VeldNoun1. Elevated open grassland in southern Africa. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Veld is Afrikaans for countryside, or bush.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Veld."
Synonym: VeldSynonym: veldt (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Veld |
| English words defined with "veld": kopje, koppie. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "veld": Veldt. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Veld" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (field, veldt), Dutch (field), French (veld, veldt). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Veld (1987) Het Veld van eer (1983) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Lesotho | Terrain: High veld, plateau and mountains. (references) |
Botswana | There is potential for diversification into horticultural production, forestry, bee keeping, veld products and game farming, to complement traditional arable and livestock farming. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Veld" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Veld" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "veld" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Veld | Last name | 100 | 76,596 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "veld": veld sickness. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "veld": back-veld. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
huis in t veld | 12 |
sunrise veld | 9 |
veld | 8 |
veld wateringse | 3 |
by doris lessing sunrise veld | 2 |
doris lessing sunrise veld | 2 |
summary sunrise veld | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "veld"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | stepë (pampas, prairie, steppe, veldt). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرج عشبي, واحة (oasis). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | поле (bent, domain, field, margin, open country, plain, veldt), пасбище (grass, grazing ground, herbage, pasture, pasture-ground, sheepwalk, shieling, veldt). (various references) | |
Danish | cowdriose (bush sickness or Boschziekte, Cowdria ruminantium infection, cowdriosis, heartwater, inapunga, veld sickness). (various references) | |
Dutch | cowdriose (bush sickness or Boschziekte, Cowdria ruminantium infection, cowdriosis, heartwater, inapunga, veld sickness). (various references) | |
French | veld (veldt). (various references) | |
German | Buschland. (various references) | |
Greek | βοσκότοποσ (common, grass land, grazing land, sheep run, veldt), άδενδροσ πεδιάσ τησ αφρικήσ (veldt). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אות "שא (meadow). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vadászterület (chase, hunting country, hunting ground, range, shoot, shooting, veldt), dél-afrikai préri (veldt). (various references) | |
Italian | idropericardite infettiva (bush sickness or Boschziekte, Cowdria ruminantium infection, cowdriosis, heartwater, inapunga, veld sickness), idropericardite (bush sickness or Boschziekte, Cowdria ruminantium infection, cowdriosis, heartwater, inapunga, veld sickness), cowdriosi (bush sickness or Boschziekte, Cowdria ruminantium infection, cowdriosis, heartwater, inapunga, veld sickness). (various references) | |
Manx | Magher ny h-Africk (African veld). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eldvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | savana (prairie, savannah), estepe (steppe). (various references) | |
Russian | степь (heath, prairie, steppe, steppes), вельд (veldt). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | južnoafrička livada (veldt). (various references) | |
Spanish | sabana (linen, savanna, savannah, sheet). (various references) | |
Swedish | veldt (veldt), grässlätt (grassland, prairie, savanna, savannah, veldt). (various references) | |
Turkish | bozkır (desert, moor, moorland, steppe, veldt, wold). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пасовисько (grazing, pastureland, pasture-land, veldt). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "veld": velds, veldt, veldts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-v" | |
-1 letter: del, dev, eld, led, lev. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-v" | |
+1 letter: delve, devel, devil, laved, lived, loved, velds, veldt, voled. | |
+2 letters: calved, delved, delver, delves, devels, devils, drivel, gloved, halved, helved, leaved, leveed, levied, salved, slaved, solved, vailed, valued, valved, vealed, veiled, veldts, vialed. | |
+3 letters: alcoved, anviled, availed, avulsed, bedevil, beloved, beveled, caviled, cleaved, deleave, deliver, delvers, delving, devalue, develed, develop, deviled, devilry, devisal, devolve, divulge, drivels, evolved, gaveled, glaived, hoveled, leveled, levered, livened, louvred, raveled, relived, reveled, reviled, rivaled, salvoed, shelved, sleaved, sleeved, unlived, unloved, valeted, vaulted, vedalia, velured, vexedly, vialled, vittled, volumed, voluted. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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