forest
IPA: fˈɔrʌst
noun
- A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
- Any dense collection or amount.
- (historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
- (graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
- The colour forest green.
- A surname.
- A city, the county seat of Scott County, Mississippi, United States.
- A male given name: Alternative form of Forrest.
verb
- (transitive) To cover an area with trees.
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Examples of "forest" in Sentences
- The dense forest has many trees.
- Many cornfields and forests accompany the land.
- In the early 1800s, the land was a swampy forest.
- The chief tree of the northern forests is the oak.
- Flame of the forest is an ornamental tree in the tropics.
- He was a lofty pine among the smaller trees of the forest.
- Reforestation is the restoration of previously forested land.
- This kind of cherry picking misses the forest for the trees, willfully.
- They cleared the forests to establish pasture and to cultivate the land.
- The species is considered a pest of forests because it defoliates trees.