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sylvan

[sil-vuhn] / ˈsɪl vən /
ADJECTIVE
woodsy
Synonyms


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If it weren’t for the long-ago gift of some 3,000 gorgeous sylvan acres from a cranky jailbird with a civic conscience and a large and very taxable real estate portfolio, we wouldn’t have Griffith Park.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

The sylvan glade romanticism of “Emeralds,” the electric energy of “Rubies,” the glittering imperial court of “Diamonds.”

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2023

The movie is romantic slapstick, set far from the bohemian Lower East Side in sylvan Vermont.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

Consider the hectares and hectares of fences and hedges, often erected at considerable cost to transform a yard, and certainly a pool, into an owner’s sylvan duchy.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2022

The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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