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Word of the Day – Veldt

By January 11, 2020Word of the Day

Veldt (also Veld) (noun)

velt

Open, uncultivated country or grassland in southern Africa. It is conventionally divided by altitude into highveld, middleveld, and lowveld.

Afrikaans, from Dutch, literally ‘field’.

Example sentences

“She watched the acres of open veldt before her.”

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