Forest

  • 41forest — for|est [ fɔrəst ] noun count or uncount *** a large area of land covered by trees and other plants growing close together: When we were children, we loved to hike through the forest. Acid rain is already destroying large areas of forest and… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 42Forest — 1 Original name in latin Forest Name in other language State code US Continent/City America/Chicago longitude 32.36459 latitude 89.47423 altitude 149 Population 5684 Date 2011 05 14 2 Original name in latin Forest Name in other language State… …

    Cities with a population over 1000 database

  • 43Forest — An area of land to which certain specific legal rights pertained, such as hunting. A forest was not necessarily wooded a bare mountain could be a forest, provided the legal status applied to it …

    Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • 44forest — [13] The underlying sense of forest appears to be ‘outside wooded area’. It comes from the late Latin phrase forestis silva (Latin silva means ‘wood’), which was applied to the royal forests of Charlemagne. The adjective forestis (which became… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 45forest — noun (C) a large area of land that is thickly covered with trees: Much of Scandinavia is covered in dense pine forest. | a forest fire …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 46forest — for•est [[t]ˈfɔr ɪst, ˈfɒr [/t]] n. 1) bot ecl a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland 2) why (formerly, in England) a tract of land generally belonging to the sovereign and set apart for game 3) a thick cluster of… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 47forest —    In Microsoft Windows 2000, a collection of Active Directory trees that do not share a contiguous namespace, but do share a common schema and global catalog.    For example, if acme.com and widget.com were linked via a trust relationship but… …

    Dictionary of networking

  • 48forest — A tract of land covered with trees and one usually of considerable extent. In old English law, a certain territory of wooded ground and fruitful pastures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, and warren, to rest and abide in the …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 49forest — A tract of land covered with trees and one usually of considerable extent. In old English law, a certain territory of wooded ground and fruitful pastures, privileged for wild beasts and fowls of forest, chase, and warren, to rest and abide in the …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 50forest — [13] The underlying sense of forest appears to be ‘outside wooded area’. It comes from the late Latin phrase forestis silva (Latin silva means ‘wood’), which was applied to the royal forests of Charlemagne. The adjective forestis (which became… …

    Word origins