forests

nounarea with a large number of trees

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noun area with a large number of trees

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Word Origin & History

late 13c., "extensive tree-covered district," especially one set aside for royal hunting and under the protection of the king, from Old French forest "forest, wood, woodland" (Modern French forêt), probably ultimately from Late Latin/Medieval Latin forestem silvam "the outside woods," a term from the Capitularies of Charlemagne denoting "the royal forest;" perhaps via Old High German forst, from Latin foris "outside" (see foreign), with a sense of "beyond the park," the park being the main or central fenced woodland.

Another theory traces it through Medieval Latin forestis, originally "forest preserve, game preserve," from Latin forum in legal sense "court, judgment;" in other words "land subject to a ban" [Buck]. Replaced Old English wudu.

Example Sentences for forests

All the mountains, and rivers, and forests—all the people in the world?

Did I not say that mountains and rivers and forests are nothing?

And the other was lost for ever, and she was alone in the forests and mountains of the world.

La Bresse is still a rich commune by reason of its forests and industries.

On the way they set fire to forests and covered five little villages.

I adore the sea and the plain, but I neither care for mountains nor for forests.

On the right was earth with its towns, forests, and rivers, and the beings that live in each.

Did Orpheus by his lay humanize the rugged beasts and teach the forests to listen?

But the forests were gone, the streams enslaved by the power monopolies.

"Those are the woodcutters of the forests of the Seille," said Silvere.

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