Woodland Meaning
/ˈwʊd.lənd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjOf a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
adjHaving the character of a woodland.
Sentence Examples
The woodland was parceled into farms.
On the edge of the forest, the woodland animals played Nickleback loudly to discourage humans.
The giraffe herd is still in the woodland.
CEFR Practice Quiz
They walked through the dense ____ filled with tall oaks and pines.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The region is famous for its beautiful ____, which provides a habitat for many different and rare bird species today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English wodeland, wodelond, from Old English wuduland (“woodland; forestland; forest”), equivalent to wood + land. Compare West Frisian wâldlân, Dutch bosland, German Waldland, Icelandic skóglendi. Eclipsed non-native Middle English salt (“woodland”), borrowed from Latin saltus (“woodland, forest”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"It was a couple of hundred years or so more before I saw a third bullfinch — which didn't surprise me, for bullfinches are very woodland birds, and non-migratory into the bargain — so that they didn’t often get blown seaward over the broad Atlantic."
— 1890 July, Grant Allen, “My Islands”, in Longman's Magazine, volume 16, number 93, page 341:
"As its name implies, this species Woodlark] is a more woodland bird than the other British Larks, and in many of its ways of life it resembles the Tree Pipit, frequenting the neighborhood of woods and plantations, but always affecting trees."
— 1894, R. Bowdler Sharpe, A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain, volume I, W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, page 91:
"It is a very woodland country, with plenty of grass, but it is too large for four days a-week, and the sport is generally rather indifferent."
— 1827, "Amateur", “Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire Hunting”, in Sporting Magazine, page 64:
"[…] understanding that their next fixture was in a very woodland country, and at a distance, I deferred this pleasure to another opportunity."
— 1835, Nimrod's Hunting Tours, page 109:
"Shortly after leaving Swindon the main line enters Wiltshire, and runs through an extremely woodland district to Chippenham[…]"
— 1871, George Gill, Fourth Reader, page 135:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
They walked through the dense ____ filled with tall oaks and pines.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The region is famous for its beautiful ____, which provides a habitat for many different and rare bird species today.