forest
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈfɒɹɪst/]
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Senses
1. forest (noun) — sense 1
Definition: A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
Example: Who after Archimagoes fowle defeat / Led her away into a foreſt wilde, / And turning wrathfull fyre to luſtfull heat, / With beaſtly ſin though her to haue defilde, / And made the vaſſal of his pleaſures vilde.
2. forest (noun) — sense 2
Definition: Any dense collection or amount.
Example: a forest of criticism
3. forest (noun) — sense 3
Definition: A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
Example: Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
4. forest (verb) — sense 4
Definition: To cover an area with trees.
Example: From the view-point of national economy professor Fehér communicates to us most interesting facts, which he has established in an important question now of actuality : in the subject of foresting the Great Hungarian Plains.
Structure of the word
Roots:- perkʷ (Proto-Indo-European)
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