Forest

Quick meaning: Forest is a noun meaning A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.

Meaning

A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.

More Meanings

1. Any dense collection or amount.
2. (graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
3. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
4. (uncountable) The color forest green.
5. (transitive) To cover an area with trees.
6. (historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.

Example Sentences

a forest of criticism

Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open.

[…] 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.

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.

Word Forms

• forests
• foreste
• foresting
• forested

Synonyms for forest

Depending on context, synonyms include woods, woodland, timber, afforest, timberland, wood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include woods, timberland, timber, woodland, afforest, wood.

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