# forest

Pronunciation: US say "FOR-uhst" /ˈfɔɹəst/; UK say "FOR-ist" /ˈfɒɹɪst/

## Noun

1. A large area of land covered mainly with trees and undergrowth, whether wild or planted, usually bigger than a wood.
   - Simple: A large area of land covered with many trees and other plants.
   - _The forest stretched for miles across the valley floor._
   - _Loggers cleared part of the ancient forest last spring._
3. A dense collection or large amount of anything.
   - Simple: A large, thick group of many things close together.
   - _A forest of cranes rose above the city's booming skyline._
   - _He got lost in a forest of paperwork before the deadline._
4. An area of land in England, especially from the Norman Conquest to the 1600s, set aside as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use.
   - Simple: Long ago in England, a large area of land kept just for the king to hunt.
   - _Villagers living inside a royal forest had to obey special laws that protected the king's deer._
   - _The Crown's officers patrolled the forest to guard the king's deer._
5. A dark green color, the shade known as forest green.
   - Simple: A dark green color, like the leaves of trees in a wood.
   - _The car came in three colors: navy, burgundy, and forest._
   - _The wool sweater is sold in charcoal, cream, and forest._

## Verb

2. To cover an area of land with trees.
   - Simple: To plant trees so they cover an area of land.
   - _Large stretches of former farmland have been forested since the program began, mostly with native hardwoods._
   - _Over the next twenty years, the abandoned pastureland was slowly forested with native hardwoods, and deer soon returned to the area._

## Other meanings

- (noun) In Microsoft Active Directory, a group of one or more domain trees that share a common schema and are managed as a single unit.
- (noun) A graph that contains no cycles, formed from one or more separate trees.

## Origin

From Old French forest, from medieval Latin forestis, whose source is disputed. It may come from Latin foris, 'outside', as in woodland outside the enclosed park, or from a Germanic word for wooded land related to fir.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/forest (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).