forest
Pronunciation: /ˈfɒɹɪst/
The English word “forest” has 7 meanings listed here.
noun
- A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
- Any dense collection or amount.
- A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
- A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
- A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
- The color forest green.
verb
Etymology
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…
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