afforest
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]First attested in the 16th century. From Medieval Latin afforēstō, from Latin ad (“towards”) + forēsta (“forest”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]afforest (third-person singular simple present afforests, present participle afforesting, simple past and past participle afforested)
- (transitive) To make into forest
- After we leave the quarry, we intend to afforest the land and turn it into a nature reserve.
- 1901 June 7, G. H. Davies, “Rain-making”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record[1], volume 4, number 7, page 195:
- It is probably impossible to afforest quickly any real desert.
Usage notes
[edit]Afforest once connoted bringing woodland under forest law in order to provide hunting grounds. However today the verb is more likely to connote commercial exploitation.
Synonyms
[edit]- (to make into forest): forest
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “to make into forest”): deafforest, deforest
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]make into a forest
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References
[edit]- 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised), Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN
- “Afforest, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. - “afforest”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ^ “afforest, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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