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forest
CEFRA2
/ˈfɒɹɪst/
noun
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A large area covered mainly with trees and plants.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
Examples
A small forest fire can easily spread and quickly become a great conflagration.
The panda's natural habitat is the bamboo forest.
At a glance
Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 2
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsAny dense collection or amount.
A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
More examples
In contextYou will see a forest of masts in the harbor.
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.
a forest of criticism
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Origin
noun
Inherited from Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis. The Latin could be: * from foris (“outside”), as in forestis (silva) "(wood) outside," * or from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *furhisti (“forest, fir-grove, wooded land”), equivalent to fir + hurst. In which case, related to Old English fyrhþe (“forested land”), Old High German forst, forsti (“forest”), Old Norse fýri (“pine forest”). Doublet of frith. Cognate with Dutch vorst (“copse, grove, woodland”), German Forst (“forest”). In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood) and Middle English wald, wold, wæld, from Old English wal...