name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A city, the county seat of Scott County, Mississippi, United States.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of townships in the United States, in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan (3), Minnesota (2), and Missouri, listed under Forest Township.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A hamlet in Ellerton-on-Swale parish, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ2700).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A locality in Circular Head Council, north western Tasmania, Australia.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Nottingham Forest F.C.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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name
A male given name: Alternative form of Forrest.
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noun
A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
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noun
Any dense collection or amount.
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noun
A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
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Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences
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noun
A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: Microsoft Windows
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
The color forest green.
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Usage: uncountable
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verb
To cover an area with trees.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: wood, woods
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Broader terms: vegetation, flora, botany
Narrower terms: bosk, grove, jungle, rain forest, rainforest, old growth, virgin forest, second growth
noun
land that is covered with trees and shrubs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: woodland, timberland, timber
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Broader terms: biome, land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
Narrower terms: greenwood, riparian forest, silva, sylva, tree farm, Black Forest, Schwarzwald, Sherwood Forest, Wilderness
verb
establish a forest on previously unforested land
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: afforest
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Broader terms: plant, set
Narrower terms: re-afforest, reforest
History
French surname, from Old French forest (“forest”). Compare Laforest and Deforest. Also an English and Scottish surname, variant of Forrest and related to the above.
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 wald, weald (modern English wald, weald, wold).
Across languages
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