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boscage

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /bɒskɪdʒ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /bɑskɪd͡ʒ/

1

noun

Meaning 1

A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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2

noun

Meaning 2

Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: law

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3

noun

Meaning 3

Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: art, arts

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4

noun

Meaning 4

A tax on wood.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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History

Etymology

From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).

Across languages

Translations

5 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: гъсталак (gǎstalak) — a grove or thicket
  • Russian: ро́ща (róšča) — a grove or thicket
  • Russian: подле́сок (podlésok) — a grove or thicket
  • Russian: куста́рник (kustárnik) — a grove or thicket
  • Swedish: buskage — a grove or thicket