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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
eld is a noun meaning "a late time of life". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a late time of life
“old age is not for sissies”
“he's showing his years”
“age hasn't slowed him down at all”
“a beard white with eld”
“on the brink of geezerhood”
a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
“she was now of school age”
“tall for his eld”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for eld come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.