Definitions for forests
forests
for·est
Spelling: [fawr-ist, for-]
IPA: /ˈfɔr ɪst, ˈfɒr-/
Forests is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 164 anagrams from letters in forests (eforsst).
Definitions for forests
noun
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a large tract of land covered with trees and underbrush; woodland.
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the trees on such a tract:
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a tract of wooded grounds in England formerly belonging to the sovereign and set apart for game.
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a thick cluster of vertical objects:
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the forepart of anything; front.
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the fore, Nautical. the foremast.
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Lee, 1873–1961, U.S. inventor of radio, telegraphic, and telephonic equipment.
Idioms
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fore and aft, Nautical. in, at, or to both ends of a ship.
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to the fore,
into a conspicuous place or position; to or at the front.
at hand; ready; available.
still alive.
adverb
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Nautical. at or toward the bow.
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forward.
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Obsolete. before.
adjective
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situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.
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first in place, time, order, rank, etc.; forward; earlier.
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Nautical.
of or relating to a foremast.
noting a sail, yard, boom, etc., or any rigging belonging to a fore lower mast or to some upper mast of a foremast.
noting any stay running aft and upward to the head of a fore lower mast or to some specified upper mast of a foremast:
situated at or toward the bow of a vessel; forward.
verb (used with object)
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to supply or cover with trees; convert into a forest.
preposition, conjunction
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Also, 'fore. Informal. before.
Origin of forests
1250-1300; Middle English Old French Late Latin forestis (silva) an unenclosed wood (as opposed to a park), derivative of Latin forīs outside. Cf. foreign
Examples for forests
His spirit yearned after his father, and his heart was sick for his forest home.
It is a venerable chestnut, and known as "the father of the forest."
He is aged for such a journey, if you came from the forest since morn.
In a forest, solitude would be life; in a city, it is death.
He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in forest Hills.
Instead, most of the suffering species ate insects on the forest floor.
“It fundamentally changes the architecture of forest canopies,” says Watson.
About daylight I reached a forest in which I could conceal myself during the day.
The birds poop all over the forest, and thanks to the viscin, the mistletoe seeds in said poop stick to branches.
From the looks of it, mistletoe is a keystone species and plays a crucial role in that forest ecosystem.