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|definition=A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. |
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|synonymy=backwoods, brake, chase, clump, coppice, copse, cover, covert, grove, growth, jungle, park, shelter, stand, thicket, timber, timberland, weald, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlot, woods |
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|antonymy=city, metropolis, plain, wasteland |
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|hypernymy=scrub, pine |
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|meronymy=tree, bush |
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Revision as of 10:19, 7 December 2011
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) forest, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) forest, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin (deprecated template usage) foresta, first used in the Capitularies of Charlemagne in reference to the royal forest (as opposed to the inner woods, or (deprecated template usage) parcus). Displaced native (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) weald, (deprecated template usage) wald from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) weald, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) scogh, (deprecated template usage) scough from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) skógr, and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) frith, (deprecated template usage) firth from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) fyrhþ.
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin (deprecated template usage) foresta probably represents the fusion of two earlier words: one taken as an adaptation of the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin phrase (deprecated template usage) forestem silvam, mistaking forestem for woods (—a development not found in Romance languages; compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) selve); the other is the continuance of an existing word since Merovingian times of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "gem" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. origin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *(deprecated template usage) forhist as the general word for "forest, forested land". The (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin term may have originated as a sound-alike, or been adapted as a play on the Frankish word (Gallo-Romans were often outraged by the King's exclusive hunting rights in the "outside forest". Emphasis to "outside" may have been an attempt to evoke danger, or to emphasise that the lands were banned from general note). (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Frankish *(deprecated template usage) forhist comes from Template:proto, from Template:proto, and is cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German (deprecated template usage) forst ((deprecated template usage) [etyl] German (deprecated template usage) Forst), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Low German (deprecated template usage) vorst, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) fyrhþ, (deprecated template usage) fyrhþe, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "Latinx" is not valid. See WT:LOS., and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "Latinx" is not valid. See WT:LOS.. More at frith, fir.
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) forestem comes from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) foris from Template:proto, akin to English (deprecated template usage) door. More at foreign.
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Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: fŏrˈəst, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "/ˈfɒɹ.əst/" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., Template:SAMPA
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: fôr'əst, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "/ˈfɔɹ.əst/" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., Template:SAMPA
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "New York" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. enPR: fär'əst Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "/ˈfɑɹ.əst/" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. Template:SAMPA
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "en-us-forest.ogg" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "En-uk-forest.ogg" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
Noun
forest (plural forests)
- A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area. Larger than woods.
- Any dense collection or amount.
- Forest of criticism.
- A defined area of land formerly set aside in England as a royal hunting ground.
- Template:graph theory a disjoint union of trees
Derived terms
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Verb
forest (third-person singular simple present forests, present participle foresting, simple past and past participle forested)
- Template:transitive To cover an area with trees.
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Anagrams
Middle French
Noun
forest f (plural forests)
- forest
- Mais quand il eut mis fin a ses parolles, & que semblablement les forestz resonnãtes se furent appaisées […] (L’Arcadie-Trad-Massin, published 1544, Paris)
- But when he had finished talking, and the forests felt appeased […]
- Mais quand il eut mis fin a ses parolles, & que semblablement les forestz resonnãtes se furent appaisées […] (L’Arcadie-Trad-Massin, published 1544, Paris)
Old French
Noun
forest oblique singular, f (oblique plural forez or foretz, nominative singular forest, nominative plural forez or foretz)
Descendants
- English: forest
- Middle French: forest
- French: forêt
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Medieval Latin
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Frankish
- English terms derived from Latin
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English verbs
- Middle French lemmas
- Middle French nouns
- Middle French feminine nouns
- Middle French countable nouns
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns