tree

Meaning

Noun

1. A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
2. Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
3. An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
4. A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
5. The structural frame of a saddle.
6. A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
7. A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
8. A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
9. Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
10. The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
11. (in-plural, often, slang) Marijuana.
12. A cross or gallows.
13. A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
14. The fifth Lenormand card.
15. (alt-of, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.

Verb

1. (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
2. (transitive) To place in a tree.
3. (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
4. (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.

Synonyms

wood

🪵

plant

🌱

stick

shrub

fruit

forest

trunk

bush

timber

firewood

log

arbor

corner

stem

casuarina

cypress

balsa

beam

tree diagram

base

flora

black bean

woody

cypress pine

fork

foot

🦶

tamarind

devil nettle

stake

rosewood

shoetree

pole

alder

potted plant

🪴

root

baobab tree

dogwood

dendrite

birch tree

cultivated plant

birch

cross

cottonwood

jungle

ironwood

hammer

🔨

column

beech

avocado tree

hackberry

Translations

árvore

🌳

arbre

🌳

árbol

🌳

Baum

🌳

albero

🌳

boom

🌳

arbor

🌳

δέντρο

ağaç

🌳

arbre

🌳

شجرة

🌳

breu

δένδρο

arbre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹiː/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: tre

Inherited from Old English: trēo

Cognate with Scots: tree

Cognate with Northern Frisian: tre

Cognate with Middle Dutch: tree

Cognate with Dutch: teer

Cognate with Danish: træ

Cognate with Swedish: trä

Cognate with Norwegian: tre

Cognate with Icelandic: tré

Cognate with Gothic: 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿

Cognate with Sanskrit: दारु

Cognate with Albanian: dru

Cognate with Welsh: dâr

Cognate with Ancient Greek: δόρυ

Cognate with Russian: де́рево

Cognate with Tokharian A: or

In summary

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *drew-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *trewą
Proto-West Germanic *treu
Old English trēow
Middle English tre
English tree
PIE word
*dóru
From Middle English tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trow, from Old English trēo, trēow (“tree, wood, timber, beam, log, stake, stick, grove, cross, rood”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree, wood”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Replaced alternative Middle English beem, from Old English bēam (see beam) and eclipsed non-native Middle English arbre, borrowed from Old French arbre.
Cognates
From the same Proto-Indo-European: Scots tree (“wood, rod, stick”), Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish, Faroese, Scanian træ (“tree”), Icelandic tré (“tree; wood”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk tre (“tree”), Swedish trä (“wood; tree”), träd (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “tree; wood, piece of wood”), Sanskrit दारु (dāru, “tree; wood”), Albanian dru (“tree; wood”), Welsh dâr (“oaks”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “wood, spear”), Russian де́рево (dérevo) or дре́во (drévo, “tree”), Tocharian A, Tocharian B or (“wood”). Related to tar, true.

Sentences

It was no more exciting than an overturned carriage or a tree blown across the road .

It is an evergreen coniferous tree growing to tall .