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or veldt
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
The prospect of being stuck in a jeep watching wildebeest pour through the veld did not intrigue me.
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Gary Shteyngart,
The Atlantic,
17 Mar. 2026
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.
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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.
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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.
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Ingrid Abramovitch,
ELLE Decor,
5 Jan. 2021
There is still plenty of grassland here, or veld, as South Africans call it.
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David McKenzie,
CNN,
6 Mar. 2020
Early in the play, Piet says of the plants:
That veld is a hard world.
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Christopher Arnott,
courant.com,
29 May 2018
These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began.
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Lois Parshley,
Scientific American,
1 May 2018
Only 20 feet separated my truck from the king of the veld.
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charlotteobserver,
27 Oct. 2017
Gary Shteyngart,
The Atlantic,
17 Mar. 2026
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
Early in the play, Piet says of the plants:
That veld is a hard world.
—
Christopher Arnott,
courant.com,
29 May 2018
These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began.
—
Lois Parshley,
Scientific American,
1 May 2018
Only 20 feet separated my truck from the king of the veld.
—
charlotteobserver,
27 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for veld
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For outdoor adventurers, nearby Myakka River State Park delivers with a canopy walkway through pineland, prairie, and wetlands.
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Now, each year, the vineyard brings in roughly 120 to 130 sheep, which rotate through the property’s oak habitat and upland prairie habitat over the course of a few months.
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Patagonia is a diverse region in southern Chile and Argentina, with glaciers, mountains and fjords to the west, stretching into steppe and desert toward the east.
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References to nomads of the Kazakh steppe and local symbolism abound in the label, as seen in the heavy glass bottles recalling nomads’ flasks and decorated with handmade pendants in the form of old coins engraved with the emblem of each fragrance.
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Their experience exposes vulnerabilities across the country, experts say, because flood plain maps don’t cover all areas.
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Most travelers visit Africa for wildlife moments such as elephants at a waterhole, lions in the grass and rhinos on open plains.
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The sun shined on the battlefield area, a wide-open grassland with few trees, mountains in the distance.
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The medium-sized bats primarily live in arid grasslands, desert scrublands, and dry tropical forests.
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Across the Amazon rainforest, cerrado savanna, Atlantic Forest, Pantanal wetland, Caatinga scrub and Pampa grassland, the country’s plant life seems less like one national inheritance than several botanical worlds sharing a border.
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Set on a tiny, exceedingly private spit of land deep inside a national park, the property spans wetlands, savanna, and Rwanda’s quintessential hillscapes.
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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.
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This involves riding on gravel tracks across pampas, past fjords, and ranchlands.
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“Veld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/veld. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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