Synonyms of veld

veld

noun

ˈvelt 

variants or veldt

as in prairie

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country

lions prowling the African veld

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prairie
• steppe
• plain
• grassland
• savanna
• pampa
• meadow
• moor
• tundra
• heath
• campo
• llano
• lea
• field
• champaign
• down(s)
• lowland
• plateau
• floodplain
• bottomland
• tableland
• upland
• flat
• table
• bottom

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of veld

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

These velds are where the last several Rift epidemics in South Africa began. — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 1 May 2018

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