Forest

Noun

 * 1) A dense collection of trees covering a relatively large area.  Larger than woods.
 * 2) Any dense collection or amount.
 * 3) A defined area of land formerly set aside in England as a royal hunting ground.
 * 4)  a disjoint union of trees

Verb

 * 1)  To cover an area with trees.

Adjectives for Forest
thick; rude; untrodden; dripping; shadowed; unwilling; melancholy; somber; tangled; pine-carpeted infinite; tantalizing; hazy; unbroken; coniferous; panther-peopled; odorous; stretching; hoary; intervening; matted; immense majestic; fast-darkening; surrounding dreary; leafless; silver-powdered; limit less; disenchanted; unwholesome; girdling; trackless; frowning consuming; scathed; ancient; encircling mighty; monotonous; luxuriant sleeping; uncouth; miniature; black-bearded; encroaching; slumberous; isolated; teak; aboriginal; virgin; lonely; primeval; adjacent; unawakened; green-haired; trackless; preservable; cathedral-vaulted; thick-studded; favoring; natural; solemn; tropical; impenetrable; solitary; mildew; uncleared; enchanted; rank; moon-illumined; great; silent; desolate; interminable; incense-bearing; magnificent; fragrant; murmuring; umbrageous; blackened; sun-filled; naming; black; golden; tinted; unspoiled; moaning; boundless; still;

Verbs for Forest
conserve—s; denude—s; deplete—; dot with—s; entangle in—; fell—; guard—; harbor in—; infest—; invade—; jeopardize—s; level—; patrol—; poach in—; preserve—; raze—; skirt—; thin out—; wipe out—; —abounds in; —encircles; —extends; — flourishes; —ranges; —whispers.

Thesaurus
jungle, jungles, national forest, outback, outpost, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pine barrens, plant, pot, primeval forest, protection forest, put in, rain forest, reforest, reforestation, reforestational, reset, retimber, scatter seed, scrub, scrubby, scrubland, seed, seed down, selection forest, seminate, set, shrubby, shrubland, silvicultural, silviculture, sow, sow broadcast, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, sylvan, the bush, thicket, timber, timbered, timberland, timbers, transplant, tree veld, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin forest, virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, weald, wild West, wilderness, wilds, wildwood, wood, wooded, woodland, woodlands, woods, woodsy, woody, afforestation, afforestational, arboreous, arboretum, back country, backwoods, bed, boondock, boondocks, borderland, bosky, braky, broadcast, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, bushy, chase, climax forest, cloud forest, coppice, copse, copsy, dendrologic, dendrology, dibble, disseminate, drill, forest land, forest preserve, forestal, forested, forestry, forests, fringing forest, frontier, gallery forest, greenwood, grove, hanger, hinterland, implant, index forest, inseminate,

Derived terms

 * forestal
 * forest-bill
 * forested
 * forester
 * forestial


 * forestlike
 * forestry
 * can't see the forest for the trees
 * rainforest

Etymology
From forest:, from  forest:, from  foresta:, first used in the Capitularies of Charlemagne in reference to the royal forest (as opposed to the inner woods, or parcus:). Displaced native weald:, wald: from  weald:,  scogh:, scough: from  skogr:, and  frith:, firth: from  fyrhþ:.

foresta: probably represents the fusion of two earlier words: one taken as an adaptation of the phrase forestis silva:, mistaking forestem for woods (—a development not found in Romance languages; compare  selve:); the other is the continuance of an existing word since Merovingian times of  origin, from  *undefined: as the general word for "forest, forested land". The term may have originated as a sound-alike, or been adapted as a play on the Frankish word (Gallo-Romans were often outraged by the King's exclusive hunting rights in the "outside forest". Emphasis to "outside" may have been an attempt to evoke danger, or to emphasise that the lands were banned from general note). *undefined: comes from, from , and is cognate with forst:,  vorst:,  fyrhþ:, fyrhþe:,  fýri:, and  fjǫrr:. More at frith, fir.

forestis: comes from foris: from, akin to English door:. More at foreign.



Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic: غابة
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܥܒܐ (‘ābā, ‘obo)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Basque: baso
 * Belarusian: лес
 * Blackfoot: ĭspitcĭko
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, , selva
 * Central Atlas Tamazight:
 * Ch'orti': tah
 * Chamicuro: ,
 * Cheyenne: ma'tää'e
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Creek: etvlkē
 * Crimean Tatar:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: skógur, skógvur
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , , ,
 * Galician: bosque, floresta, selva
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , Gehölz,
 * Greek: ,
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: עבא (‘ābā, ‘obo)
 * Hebrew: יער (ya'ar)
 * Hindi: जंगल, वन
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: foresto
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: foreste
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 森, 森林
 * Kannada:, ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Kazakh:, ағаш


 * Khmer: ព្រៃ
 * Korean: 숲, 삼림 (森林)
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Lakota: kaƞwita
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luhya:
 * Macedonian: шума
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: foresta, masġar
 * Mapudungun:
 * Mi'kmaq: nebŏŏkt'
 * Mingo: kaháta'
 * Navajo:
 * Northern Sami: vuovdi
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: forèst, selva
 * Ojibwe: mitigwaaki, mitigwaakiin
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: pădure, silvă (rare)
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: coille
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шума, лес, луг
 * Roman: šuma, les, lug
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:, ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ,
 * Tamil: காடு, அடவி,  கா,  பொழில்,  அரண்,  புறவு,  தில்லம்,  கான்,  கடறு,  அழுவம்,  வனம்
 * Telugu: అడవి (aDavi)
 * Thai: ป่า, ป่าไม้
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ліс
 * Urdu: جنگل
 * Uyghur: ئورمان
 * Vietnamese: rừng
 * Volapük: fot, fotil
 * Walloon: bwès, bos
 * West Frisian: ,
 * Yucatec Maya: ƙahš


 * Croatian:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:


 * Slovene: ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Telugu: అడవి (aDavi)


 * Danish:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Swahili: ,

Verb

 * Bulgarian: залесявам
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: arbari
 * Hungarian: fásít, erdősít
 * Irish: ,


 * Latvian: apmežot
 * Macedonian: пошумува
 * Romanian: înpăduri
 * Slovene: pogozdovati
 * Swahili: ,

Anagrams

 * fetors, fortes, foster, Foster, softer

Noun

 * 1) forest
 * Mais quand il eut mis fin a ses parolles, & que semblablement les forestz resonnãtes se furent appaisées (L’Arcadie-Trad-Massin, published 1544, Paris)
 * But when he had finished talking, and the forests felt appeased

Noun

 * 1) forest

Descendants

 * English: forest
 * Middle French:
 * French: