veld

variants or veldt

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Recent Examples of veld These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began. Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018 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. Caitlin Morton, 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 The veld looked like the giant desiccated hide of some ancient creature, skinned and scarred and skeletal. Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018 Early in the play, Piet says of the plants: That veld is a hard world. Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 29 May 2018 Only 20 feet separated my truck from the king of the veld. charlotteobserver, 27 Oct. 2017 The giraffe now appeared to be part of a surreal painting, running across a purplish veld beneath a red sky. Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for veld
Noun
  • Less well known is their critical role in helping dead things disappear—piles of leaves and rotting stumps, the rat in the street, the elephant on the savanna, the contents of your compost bin.
    Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
  • Black mambas are often seen cruising the savanna with their head and neck held high, using their keen eyesight to scan for danger or track prey – typically small mammals such as hyraxes, bush babies, and rodents.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Unclaimed lands, especially on the forested edges of the steppe, were offered to settlers, creating ideal conditions for hunter ticks.
    Sean Lawrence, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
  • Modern Europeans descend from three main ancestral populations: hunter-gatherers who colonized the continent by around 40,000 years ago, early farmers from Anatolia who came into Europe about 8,500 years ago, and pastoralists from the Pontic-Caspian steppe who arrived around 5,000 years ago.
    Kermit Pattison, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • High-end tour operators have followed suit as well, with itineraries offering the drama of the African plains—without the day and a half of travel required to get there.
    Jake Emen, Robb Report, 12 June 2025
  • Among the new offerings? Open-World Racing: Drive across cities, plains, deserts and oceans in a seamless world with roads connecting different race courses for the first time in the series.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Guests can also join hands-on conservation efforts—grassland restoration, snare-removal missions—to bring deeper meaning to their stay.
    Melanie van Zyl, AFAR Media, 16 June 2025
  • The latest advisories covered fire weather zones across the Kittitas Valley, central Washington, southern Oregon grasslands, and portions of Idaho.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025

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“Veld.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/veld. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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