forest

Meaning of forest

noun
  1. a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth.
    a pine forest
    a large tract of forest
  2. a large number or dense mass of vertical or tangled objects.
    a forest of high-rise apartments

Middle English (in the sense ‘wooded area kept for hunting’, also denoting any uncultivated land): via Old French from late Latin forestis (silva), literally ‘(wood) outside’, from Latin foris ‘outside’ (see foreign).

Information about forest

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of forest is: forests.
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Hyphenation of forest

for-est

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • forest is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

forest synonyms

Meaning wood:

wood, woods

Meaning woodland:

woodland, timberland, timber

Meaning afforest:

afforest

Meaning a woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk growing to a considerable height and bearing lateral branches at some distance from the ground:

trees

Meaning an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown:

plantation

Meaning an area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics:

jungle

Meaning a wood or forest in leaf (regarded as the typical scene of medieval outlaw life):

greenwood

Meaning the den of an otter:

holt

Translation of forest

Anagrams of forest

fetors, forset, fortes, Foster, foster, fstore, Retsof, softer

Words that rhyme with forest

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