(usually with plural construction, sometimes with singular construction) A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than aforest.
Thesewoods are part of the Campbell property.
Thiswoods is part of the Campbell property.(uncommon)
The wordwoods in the sense of a woodland more often takes a plural verb or determiner (as inthese woods are) than a singular verb or determiner (as inthis woods is).[1]
In somevarieties of English, only theplurale tantum form of the word is used in the sense of a woodland; thus, one does not say"I was lost in thewood" but rather"I was lost in thewoods," and one does not speak of goingfrom this wood to that wood but ratherfrom these woods to those woods.
^Ngram Viewer finds "this woods is" to have been about 1/50th as common as "these woods are" since the 1960s, and historically rarer. Compare"a woods is", 1/150th as common as "the woods are".
