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Definition: Veldt |
VeldtNoun1. Elevated open grassland in southern Africa. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "veldt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
Etymology: Veldt \Veldt\, noun. [from Dutch expression veld. Compare to Field, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: VeldtSynonym: veld (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Plain | Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Veldt |
| English words defined with "veldt": star of the veldt. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Veldt" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (veld, veldt). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | On the veldt! (Arsenic and Old Lace; writing credit: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dangers of the Veldt (1914) Lost on the Veldt (1901) | |
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| "Veldt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Veldt" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "veldt": star of the veldt ♦ veldt sore. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
the veldt | 20 |
ray bradbury the veldt | 6 |
african veldt | 4 |
bradbury veldt | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "veldt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | veld (field). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | stepë (pampas, prairie, steppe, veld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | واحة أعشاب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | поле (bent, domain, field, margin, open country, plain, veld), пасбище (grass, grazing ground, herbage, pasture, pasture-ground, sheepwalk, shieling, veld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | veld (veld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βοσκότοποσ (common, grass land, grazing land, sheep run, veld), άδενδροσ πεδιάσ τησ αφρικήσ (veld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vadászterület (chase, hunting country, hunting ground, range, shoot, shooting, veld), dél-afrikai préri (veld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Magher ny h-Africk(ey) (African veldt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eldtvay вельд (veld). (various references) južnoafrička livada (veld). (various references) veldt (veld), grässlätt (grassland, prairie, savanna, savannah, veld). (various references) bozkır (desert, moor, moorland, steppe, veld, wold). (various references) пасовисько (grazing, pastureland, pasture-land, veld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "veldt": veldts. (additional references) | |
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"Veldt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vald, vedt, Veidt, velad, veldb, velde, velds, veldte, veldty, velt, velta, vilt, vodt, vold, vylt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-t-v" | |
-1 letter: delt, veld. | |
-2 letters: del, dev, eld, led, let, lev, ted, tel, vet. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, el, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-t-v" | |
+1 letter: veldts. | |
+2 letters: valeted, vaulted, vittled, voluted. | |
+3 letters: datively, demivolt, deviltry, devoutly, dilative, dilutive, divalent, dovetail, elevated, levanted, outlived, outloved, ovulated, revolted, solvated, traveled, validate, valuated, velveted, violated. | |
+4 letters: bloviated, declivity, demivolts, depletive, devaluate, devilment, devotedly, dovetails, elevateds, eluviated, evaluated, evidently, involuted, laudative, levigated, levitated, outvalued, salivated, televised, travailed, travelled, validated, validates, verdantly, victualed, videlicet, vitalised, vitalized, vitrioled. | |
+5 letters: adaptively, additively, adjectival, adoptively, alleviated, autoclaved, convoluted, cultivated, deflective, devaluated, devaluates, devilments, deviltries, devitalize, devolution, devotional, dissolvent, dovetailed, evidential, galavanted, galivanted, illuviated, invalidate, lividities, lixiviated, outcaviled, outdeliver, outrivaled, overmelted, oversalted, overtalked, overtoiled, revalidate, revaluated, televiewed, turtledove, untraveled, vacillated, vacuolated, validities, ventilated, vestibuled, victualled, vitriolled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 6C 64 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . .-.. -.. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01101100 01100100 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e l d t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 006C 0064 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5671787086 |
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