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veldt

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Open, flat grassland regions of Southern Africa; used in regional and travel poetry to set vast, sunlit wilderness scenes.

Detailed Definition
Veldt refers to the open inland plains and grasslands of southern Africa. Hardy uses it to portray the vast foreign landscape surrounding Hodge’s grave.
Example
Example in poetry:
“That breaks the veldt around” (Kipling); Heat shimmered across the red veldt; Antelope crossed the open veldt at dusk; “Veldt” refers to open grassland in southern Africa; The regional word grounds a poem in a specific ecology and colonial history
Additional Notes
The specialized regional word “veldt” may require lookup in the evidence “the veldt around.”; Found in the poem, Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy
Also Known As
grassland savanna prairie
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