forest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
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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 (“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 wald, wold, wæld, from Old English wald, weald (modern English wald, weald, wold).
Compound parts: fir
hurst
Inflected forms:
form: forests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foreste
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: forests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foresting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forested
pos: verb
tags: past
form: foreste
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Any dense collection or amount.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a forest of criticism
Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open.
gloss: A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: 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.
[…] 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.
gloss: A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The color forest green.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To cover an area with trees.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
Synonyms: forest
woods
woodland
Related words: timber
arboretum
orchard
pinetum
stand
Derived words: African forest elephant
agriforest
agroforest
amber forest cockroach
Ardenne Forest
Ardennes Forest
Back Forest
bastion forest
Bauple Forest
Beech Forest
Bellmount Forest
Black Forest
black forest
black forest cake
Bohemian Forest
Bondi Forest
Bowland Forest High
Bowland Forest Low
Bowmans Forest
Bracknell Forest
Bulga Forest
Bulwell Forest
Campbells Forest
can't see the forest for the trees
Charleys Forest
cloud forest
Coominglah Forest
cryptoforest
Darkes Forest
dark forest hypothesis
Dartmoor Forest
Dingo Forest
disforest
drift of the forest
Duffys Forest
Dundee Forest
enforest
Epping Forest
Far Forest
Finnish forest reindeer
flame-of-the-forest
flame of the forest
Flodge
fog forest
Forest
forestage
forestal
forestation
forest batis
forest-bill
forest-blue
forest-born
forest caterpillar hunter
Forest City
Forest County
forest court
forestcraft
Forest Creek
Forestdale
forested
forest elephant
forester
Forester
forest falcon
forest fever tree
forest fire
forest fly
forest fruits
forestful
forest gardening
Forest Gate
forest giraffe
forest glass
Forest Glen
forest green
Forest Green
forest green tree frog
Forest Grove
Forest Hall
Forest Head
Forest Heath
Forest Hill
Foresthill
Forest Hills
Foresthome
forestial
forestification
forestine
forestish
forestkeeper
Forest Lake
Forest Land
forestland
forestless
forestlike
Forest Lodge
forest machine
forest mahogany
forestness
forest oak
forestocracy
Forest of Ardennes
Forest of Dean
Forest of Lyme
forestology
Forest Park
forest plot
forest polecat
forest product
forest puff adder
forest puppy
forest rail
Forest Range
forest ranger
Forest Reefs
Forest Ridge
forest robin
Forest Row
forestry
forestscape
forest school
Forest Springs
forest star
forest starwort
forest steppe
Forestvale
Forestville
forestward
forestwards
forest whites
forestwide
foresty
Frenchs Forest
fresh fucked fox in a forest fire
fruits of the forest
Gaboon forest frog
gallery forest
ghost forest
giant forest genet
giant forest hog
Gisburn Forest
Good Forest
Goonoo Forest
Green Forest
Guys Forest
hidden forest chipmunk
Hope Forest
hyperforest
interforest
intraforest
kelp forest
Kielder Forest
king of the forest
Kings Forest
Knorrit Forest
Kyasanur forest disease
Lansdowne Forest
Little Forest
Long Forest
Lyman-alpha forest
Mediterranean forest
Melville Forest
Mersey Forest
Millers Forest
miss the forest for the trees
monsoon forest
multiforest
nanoforest
National Forest
New Forest
nonforest
Norwegian forest cat
Oak Forest
old-growth forest
palaeoforest
Palatinate Forest
paleoforest
Park Forest
Peak Forest
primary forest
primeval forest
pseudoforest
rain forest
rainforest
random forest
red forest
Rock Forest
secondary forest
second-growth forest
the forest but for the trees
the forest for the trees
the forest through the trees
the trees through the forest
Selside and Fawcett Forest
Sherwood Forest
silent forest syndrome
Sonian Forest
South Forest
spoligoforest
Stockton on the Forest
subforest
Sutton Forest
Teutoburg Forest
thorn forest
Toolara Forest
Tuan Forest
Twenty Forests
unforest
virgin forest
Waddy Forest
Waltham Forest
Wellington Forest
Wonbah Forest
Wrattens Forest
Wyre Forest
Yarratt Forest
Yatir Forest
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