forest
see also: Forest
Etymology

From Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from la-eme forestis, likely from Proto-West Germanic *furhisti.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) enPR: fŏr′ĭst, IPA: /ˈfɒɹɪst/
  • (General American) enPR: fôr′ĭst, fŏr′ĭst, fôrst, IPA: /ˈfɔɹəst/, /fɔɹst/
  • (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA: /ˈfɑɹɪst/, /ˈfɑɹəst/
  • (California) IPA: [ˈfɔɹ.ɛ̈stʰ]
Noun
  1. A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 3, page 76 ↗:
      Who after Archimagoes fowle defeat / Led her away into a foreſt wilde, / And turning wrathfull fyre to luſtfull heat, / With beaſtly ſin though her to haue defilde, / And made the vaſſal of his pleaſures vilde.
  2. Any dense collection or amount.
    a forest of criticism
    • 1998, Katharine Payne, Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants, page 59:
      Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open.
  3. (historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
  4. (graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
  5. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
  6. The color forest green.
Translations Translations Translations Verb

forest (forests, present participle foresting; simple past and past participle forested)

  1. (transitive) To cover an area with trees.
    • 1937, Széchenyi Scientific Society, Report on the Work of the Széchenyi Scientific Society: Founded for the Promotion of Research in Natural Sciences in Hungary, Zeéchenyi Scientific Society, page 83:
      From the view-point of national economy professor Fehér communicates to us most interesting facts, which he has established in an important question now of actuality : in the subject of foresting the Great Hungarian Plains.
Related terms Translations
Forest
Proper noun
  1. Surname.
  2. A city/county seat in Scott County, Mississippi.
  3. A male given name: Alternative form of Forrest.



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