name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
woodman
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.
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/ˈwʊdmən/
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CMU ARPABET: W UH1 D M AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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 of life, And vex the nightingales in every dell.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: woodcutter, lumberjack, wooder
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: woodsman, forester, forest ranger
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Someone who makes things from wood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- c. 1611, John Fletcher, The Woman’s Prize, Act IV, Scene 3, in Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gentlemen, London: H. Robinson & H. Moseley, 1647, p. 116, How daintily, and cunningly you drive me Up like a Deere to’th toyle, yet I may leape it, And what’s the woodman then?
- 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 that would be a skilful Wood-man, will exercise himself thereunto first by shooting sometimes at a dead mark.
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noun
Meaning 6
Someone who lives in the woods and is considered to be uncivilized or barbaric, a savage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 7
makes things out of wood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: woodworker, woodsman
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer
Narrower terms: cabinetmaker, furniture maker, carpenter, joiner, splicer, woodcarver, carver
noun
Meaning 8
someone who lives in the woods
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: woodsman
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rustic
History
Etymology
From Middle English woodeman, wodeman, from Old English wudemann, wudumann (“woodman”), equivalent to wood + -man.
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- French: bûcheron — someone who cuts down trees or cuts and sells wood
- Turkish: oduncu — someone who cuts down trees or cuts and sells wood