Forrest en · PROPN
Etymology
English surname, from the noun forest. Also adopted and translated from the word for "forest" in various other languages by settlers.
Meanings
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A topographical surname from Middle English for someone who lived or worked in a Royal forest (area of woodland reserved for hunting).
Whether it is the soul food restaurant on 38th Street, where he and his father and trainer, Jack Mosley, dined earlier in the week, or at the workouts leading up Saturday's WBC welterweight championship rematch against Vernon Forrest at Conseco Fieldhouse, Mosley cannot go anywhere without hearing the shouts of supporters who want to get close to him.
2002 July 19, Damon Hack, “Boxing: Despite Not Having the Title, Mosley Garners Attention”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2021, retrieved 06 Jan 2014:Forrest later attacked Willis in New York, knocking him to the ground; lawsuits proliferated as Willis sued Forrest for assault, and Forrest countersued for libel.
2014, Eric L. Haralson, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, page 497:
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A town in the Shire of Colac Otway, south western Victoria, Australia