woodman

CEFRB1

/ˈwʊdmən/

noun

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  1. 01

    noun

    A man who works in or with a forest or wood.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment.

Examples

  • A woodman is a person who lives or works in the woods or forest.

  • The woodman cut down the dead tree in the forest.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Parts of speech
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Citations
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Someone who makes things from wood.

  2. Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.

  3. Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman.

More examples

In context

  • The woodman spent his entire day cutting down trees in the forest.

  • 1636, Robert Sanderson, Ad Aulam. The Fourth Sermon, Beuvoyr, July, 1636 in XXXVI Sermons, London, 8th edition, 1689, p. 413, And to get the Mastery over they self in great matters, it will behove thee to exercise this Discipline first in lesser things: as he...

  • 1862, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Woodman and the Nightingale” (written in 1818 and published posthumously) in Richard Garnett (editor), Relics of Shelley, London: Edward Moxon, p. 79, The world is full of woodmen who expel Love’s gentle dryads from the haunts...

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Origin

noun

From Middle English woodeman, wodeman, from Old English wudemann, wudumann (“woodman”), equivalent to wood + -man.