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the forest as seen from Namdapha

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Etymology

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Inherited fromMiddle Englishforest, fromOld Frenchforest, fromEarly Medieval Latinforestis. The Latin could be:

Cognate withDutchvorst(“copse, grove, woodland”),GermanForst(“forest”).

In this sense, mostly displaced the nativeMiddle Englishwode, fromOld Englishwudu (modernEnglishwood) andMiddle Englishwold,wald,wæld, fromOld Englishweald (modernEnglishwold,weald).

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forest (countable anduncountable,pluralforests)

  2. A denseuncultivatedtract oftrees andundergrowth, larger thanwoods.
    • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC, stanza 3,page76:
      Who afterArchimagoes fowle defeat / Led her away into aforeſt wilde, / And turning wrathfull fyre to luſtfull heat, / With beaſtly ſin though her to haue defilde, / And made the vaſſal of his pleaſures vilde.
    • 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8842, page29:
      Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountifulforests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
  3. Any dense collection or amount.
    aforest of criticism
    • 1998, Katharine Payne,Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants, page59:
      Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through theforest of legs and into the open.
  4. (historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royalhunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
    • 2006,Edwin Black, chapter 2, inInternal Combustion‎[1]:
      Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which theforest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize theforest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
    • 2013, Alexander Tulloch,The Little Book of Lancashire, The History Press,→ISBN:
      […] in places such as theForest of Bowland there is hardly a tree in sight and much of the area is a vast tract of almost barren gritstone hills and peat moorland.
  5. (graph theory) Agraph with nocycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
    • 2000, Victor N. Kasyanov, Vladimir A. Evstigneev,Graph Theory for Programmers: Algorithms for Processing Trees, Springer Science & Business Media,→ISBN, page16:
      LetH be a traversal of an undirected graphG = (X,U). For givenH, the setU can be split into set oftree edges from theforestGH and the set ofinverse edges that do not belong to thisforest.
  6. (computing, Microsoft Windows) Agroup ofdomains that are managed as aunit.
    • 2008, Laura E. Hunter, Robbie Allen,Active Directory Cookbook, O'Reilly Media, Inc.,→ISBN, page17:
      Forests are considered the security boundary in Active Directory; by this we mean that if you need to definitively restrict access to a resource within a particular domain so that administrators from other domains do not have any access to it whatsoever, you need to implement a separateforest instead of using an additional domain within the currentforest.
  7. (uncountable) The colorforest green.

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Translations

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dense collection of trees
any dense collection
graph theory: union of trees

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Verb

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forest (third-person singular simple presentforests,present participleforesting,simple past and past participleforested)

  1. (transitive) To cover an area with trees.
    • 1937, Széchenyi Scientific Society,Report on the Work of the Széchenyi Scientific Society: Founded for the Promotion of Research in Natural Sciences in Hungary, Zeéchenyi Scientific Society, page 83:
      From the view-point of national economy professorFehér communicates to us most interesting facts, which he has established in an important question now of actuality : in the subject offoresting the Great Hungarian Plains.

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Translations

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to cover an area with trees

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References

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  1. ^“forest”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
  2. ^“forest”, inThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,2016,→ISBN.
  3. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “forest”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.

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Middle English

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromOld Frenchforest, fromEarly Medieval Latinforestis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fɔˈrɛst/,/ˈfɔrɛst/

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forest (pluralforestes)

  1. Aforest orwood(uninhabited forested region)
  2. Apreserve forhuntingexclusive toroyalty.

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Middle French

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchforest.

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Noun

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forest f (pluralforests)

  1. forest
    • 1544,L’Arcadie-Trad-Massin, Paris:
      Mais quand il eut mis fin a ses parolles, & que semblablement lesforestz resonnãtes se furent appaisées[…]
      But when he had finished talking, and theforests felt appeased […]

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Old Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited fromEarly Medieval Latinforestis.

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forest f

  1. forest

References

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  • “forest” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Old French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromEarly Medieval Latinforestis/-a.

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  • (Classical)IPA(key): /fuˈɾɛst/
  • (Late)IPA(key): /fuˈɾɛːt/

Noun

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forestoblique singular, m orf (oblique pluralforezorforetz,nominative singularforezorforetz,nominative pluralforest)

  1. royalhunting ground
  2. forest

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