forest
Meaning of forest
- a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth.
a pine forest
a large tract of forest
- 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.
- Languages in which forest is used:
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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:
Meaning woodland:
Meaning 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:
Meaning an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are grown:
Meaning an area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics:
Meaning a wood or forest in leaf (regarded as the typical scene of medieval outlaw life):
Meaning the den of an otter:
Translation of forest
Anagrams of forest
fetors, forset, fortes, Foster, foster, fstore, Retsof, softer
Words that rhyme with forest
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