forest

Meaning

Noun

1. A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
2. Any dense collection or amount.
3. A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
4. A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
5. A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
6. The color forest green.

Verb

To cover an area with trees.

Concepts

forest

jungle

woods

wood

woodland

grove

bush

thicket

wilderness

timber

timberland

tree

garden

copse

afforest

hill

dense forest

wild

plantation

thick forest

desert

park

wooded area

scrub

antler

antlers

wooded place

also

thicket of trees

pleasure-grove

mountain

vegetation

stand of trees

chaparral

wildwood

forest type

land covered with forest

field

ticket

virgin forest

light forest

uninhabited land

forest area

underbrush

silva

stand

sylva

re-afforest

log

bushes

deciduous forest

bushland

woodsy

a piece of wood

holt

jungles

frith

natural forest

rainforest

thick

Hyphenated as

for‧est

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɒɹɪst/

Etymology

From Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis, likely from Proto-West Germanic *furhisti. In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood).

Sentences

It washed away tents and parts of the forest on the island .