forest
Plural: forests
Noun
- the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
- land that is covered with trees and shrubs
- A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
- Any dense collection or amount.
- A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
- A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
- A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
- The color forest green.
Verb
Verb Forms: forested, foresting, forests
- To plant trees to create or convert land into a forest.
- establish a forest on previously unforested land
- "afforest the mountains"
- To cover an area with trees.
Examples
- He tried to FOREST the board with small words, hoping to block my potential bingos.
Origin / 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.
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).
Scrabble Score: 9
forest: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordforest: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
forest: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary