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woodland
English
Etymology
From Middle English wodeland, wodelond, from Old English wuduland (“woodland; forestland; forest”), equivalent to wood +? land. Compare West Frisian wâldlân, Dutch bosland, German Waldland, Icelandic skóglendi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?d.l?nd/
- Hyphenation: wood?land
Adjective
woodland (comparative more woodland, superlative most woodland)
- Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
- The woodland creatures ran from the fire.
- 1837, “Picus”, in Charles Frederick Partington (editor), The British Cyclopædia of Natural History, Volume 3, W. S. Orr & Co., page 446:
- This species [Red-bellied Woodpecker] is a very little larger than the red-headed one; and it is more woodland in its manners; seldom appearing in orchards or near houses, but keeping to the tall trees in the close forests.
- 1839, Sir William Jardine, Bart., The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part II: Incessories, part of The Naturalist's Library, W.H. Lizars, page 125–6:
- The genera Philomela and Curruca, as we previously observed, are very closely allied to each other, both are woodland in their habits, and both possess great melody of song.
- 1890 July, Grant Allen, “My Islands”, in Longman's Magazine, Volume 16, Number 93, page 341:
- It was a couple of hundred years or so more before I saw a third bullfinch — which didn't surprise me, for bullfinches are very woodland birds, and non-migratory into the bargain — so that they didn’t often get blown seaward over the broad Atlantic.
- 1894, R. Bowdler Sharpe, A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain, Volume I, W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, page 91:
- As its name implies, this species [Woodlark] is a more woodland bird than the other British Larks, and in many of its ways of life it resembles the Tree Pipit, frequenting the neighborhood of woods and plantations, but always affecting trees.
- (obsolete) Having the character of a woodland.
Translations
Noun
woodland (countable and uncountable, plural woodlands)
- Land covered with woody vegetation.
Synonyms
- timberland
- forest
- holt
Hypernyms
- land
Derived terms
Translations
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forrest
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German vorderst.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?r?st/, [?f????sd?]
Adjective
forrest
- (attributive) foremost, front
- (adverbial) in front, first
Inflection
Antonyms
- bagerst, bagest
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German vorderst, compare with German vorderste.
Adjective
forrest (neuter singular forrest, definite singular and plural forreste)
- foremost (furthest forward), frontmost
References
- “forrest” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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