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| Main Entry: |
wood/woods
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forest |
| Synonyms: | copse, grove, lumber, thicket, timber, timberland, trees, weald, woodland |
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| Main Entry: | woods |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forest |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bosk, coppice, copse, silva, thicket, woodland |
| Main Entry: | club |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | golfing tool |
| Synonyms: | brassie, cleek, driver, iron, mashie, midiron, niblick, putter, spoon, stick, wedge, wood |
Example Sentences
- Nearly all day and night, red- and yellow-swathed bodies burn on wood funeral pyres.
- Dendrochronology can reveal when the tree was felled by counting the number of rings in the wood.
- The brine also attracts the delicate, not the bitter, flavors of smoldering wood chips.
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rural area; area away from city |
| Synonyms: | back country, backwoods, boondocks, boonies, bush, countryside, cow country, farmland, farms, forests, green belt, hinterland, middle of nowhere, outback, outdoors, province, sticks, up country, wide open space, wilderness, wilds, woodlands, woods |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
| Antonyms: | city, metropolis, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | forest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area with a large number of trees |
| Synonyms: | backwoods, brake, chase, clump, coppice, copse, cover, covert, grove, growth, jungle, park, shelter, stand, thicket, timber, timberland, weald, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlot, woods |
| Main Entry: | grove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cluster of trees |
| Synonyms: | brake, coppice, copse, covert, forest, orchard, plantation, spinney, stand, thicket, wood, woodland |
| Main Entry: | hinterland |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | backcountry |
| Synonyms: | boondocks, boonies, borderland, brush, bush country, frontier, outback, sticks, wasteland, wilderness, woods |
| Main Entry: | jungle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wilderness full of plant and animal life |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bush, chaparral, forest, labyrinth, maze, morass, primeval forest, tangle, undergrowth, wasteland, web, wood, zoo |
| Main Entry: | log |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stump of tree |
| Synonyms: | block, bole, chunk, driftwood, length, piece, stick, timber, trunk, wood |
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