forest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fŏr′ĭst
ipa: /ˈfɒɹɪst/
enpr: fôr′ĭst
enpr: fŏr′ĭst
enpr: fôrst
ipa: /ˈfɔɹəst/
ipa: /fɔɹst/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈfɑɹəst/
homophone: forced (US, sometimes especially in fast speech)
rhymes: -ɒɹɪst
Forms: form: forests
form: foreste
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis, likely from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *furhisti (“forest, fir-grove, wooded land”), equivalent to fir + hurst. Related to Old English fyrhþe (“forested land”), Old High German forst, forsti (“forest”), Old Norse fýri (“pine forest”). Doublet of frith.
Cognate with Dutch vorst (“copse, grove, woodland”), German Forst (“forest”).
In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood) and Middle English wold, wald, wæld, from Old English weald (modern English wold, weald).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 76:
text: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
glosses: A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
examples: text: a forest of criticism
text: Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open.
ref: 1998, Katharine Payne, Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants, page 59:
glosses: Any dense collection or amount.
examples: text: Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
text: […] in places such as the Forest of Bowland there is hardly a tree in sight and much of the area is a vast tract of almost barren gritstone hills and peat moorland.
ref: 2013, Alexander Tulloch, The Little Book of Lancashire, The History Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
examples: text: Let H be a traversal of an undirected graph G = (X, U). For given H, the set U can be split into set of tree edges from the forest G_H and the set of inverse edges that do not belong to this forest.
ref: 2000, Victor N. Kasyanov, Vladimir A. Evstigneev, Graph Theory for Programmers: Algorithms for Processing Trees, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 16:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
examples: text: Forests are considered the security boundary in Active Directory; by this we mean that if you need to definitively restrict access to a resource within a particular domain so that administrators from other domains do not have any access to it whatsoever, you need to implement a separate forest instead of using an additional domain within the current forest.
ref: 2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen, Active Directory Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 17:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
glosses: The color forest green.
Synonyms: word: forest
word: woods
word: woodland
Hyponyms: word: backwoods
word: boscage
word: bosk
word: bosque
word: brake
word: cloud forest
word: coppice
word: copse
word: cover
word: covert
word: frith
word: gallery forest
word: greenwood
word: grove
word: growth
word: hammock
word: holt
word: hurst
word: jungle
word: thicket
word: old-growth forest
word: primeval forest
word: rainforest
word: ruffmans
word: scrub
word: spinney
word: sugarbush
word: taiga
word: timberland
word: virgin forest
word: weald
word: wildwood
word: wold
word: wood lot
word: woodlot
word: beechwood
word: birchwood
word: oakwood
word: pineland
word: pinewood
word: pineyard
Meronyms: word: tree
word: bush
word: shrub
word: grass
word: moss
word: undergrowth
word: foliage
Derived terms: word: African forest elephant
word: agriforest
word: agroforest
word: amber forest cockroach
word: Ardenne Forest
word: Ardennes Forest
word: bastion forest
word: Beech Forest
word: black forest
word: Black Forest
word: black forest cake
word: Bohemian Forest
word: Bowland Forest High
word: Bowland Forest Low
word: Bracknell Forest
word: Bulwell Forest
word: can't see the forest for the trees
word: cloud forest
word: cryptoforest
word: dark forest hypothesis
word: Dartmoor Forest
word: disforest
word: drift of the forest
word: enforest
word: Epping Forest
word: Far Forest
word: Finnish forest reindeer
word: flame-of-the-forest
word: flame of the forest
word: Flodge
word: fog forest
word: forestage
word: forestal
word: forestation
word: forest batis
word: forest-bill
word: forest-blue
word: forest-born
word: forest caterpillar hunter
word: Forest City
word: Forest County
word: forest court
word: forestcraft
word: forested
word: forest elephant
word: forester
word: forest falcon
word: forest fire
word: forest fly
word: forest fruits
word: forestful
word: forest gardening
word: Forest Gate
word: forest giraffe
word: forest glass
word: Forest Glen
topics: colour
color
word: forest green
word: Forest Green
word: Forest Green
word: forest green tree frog
word: Forest Hall
word: Forest Head
word: Forest Heath
word: Forest Hill
word: Foresthill
word: Forest Hills
word: forestial
word: forestification
word: forestine
word: forestish
word: forestkeeper
word: forestland
word: forestless
word: forestlike
word: forest machine
word: forest mahogany
word: forestness
word: forest oak
word: forestocracy
word: Forest of Ardennes
word: Forest of Dean
word: Forest of Lyme
word: forestology
word: Forest Park
word: forest plot
word: forest product
word: forest puff adder
word: forest puppy
word: forest rail
word: forest ranger
word: forest robin
word: Forest Row
word: forestry
word: forestscape
word: forest school
word: forest star
word: forest starwort
word: forest steppe
word: forestward
word: forestwards
word: forest whites
word: forestwide
word: foresty
word: fresh fucked fox in a forest fire
word: Gaboon forest frog
word: gallery forest
word: ghost forest
word: giant forest genet
word: giant forest hog
word: Gisburn Forest
word: hidden forest chipmunk
word: hyperforest
word: interforest
word: intraforest
word: kelp forest
word: Kielder Forest
word: king of the forest
word: Kyasanur forest disease
word: Lyman-alpha forest
word: Mediterranean forest
word: miss the forest for the trees
word: monsoon forest
word: multiforest
word: nanoforest
word: New Forest
word: nonforest
word: Norwegian forest cat
word: Oak Forest
word: old-growth forest
word: palaeoforest
word: Palatinate Forest
word: paleoforest
word: Park Forest
word: Peak Forest
word: primary forest
word: primeval forest
word: pseudoforest
word: rain forest
word: rainforest
word: random forest
word: red forest
word: secondary forest
word: second-growth forest
word: the forest but for the trees
word: the forest for the trees
word: the forest through the trees
word: the trees through the forest
word: Sherwood Forest
word: silent forest syndrome
word: spoligoforest
word: Stockton on the Forest
word: subforest
word: Teutoburg Forest
word: thorn forest
word: unforest
word: virgin forest
word: Waltham Forest
word: Wyre Forest
word: Yatir Forest
Related terms: word: timber
word: arboretum
word: orchard
word: pinetum
word: stand