woods en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /wɵdz/ (British, Southern, Standard)
- /wʉdz/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
- /wʊdz/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Meanings
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(form-of, plural) plural of wood
form of wood
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(plural, sometimes, usually, with plural construction, with singular construction) A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.
It is a crop, like a crop of corn, which differs from a natural field of grasses in the way that a crop of trees differs from a woods.
2013, Robert McGowan, Current: Essays on the Passing of Time in the Woods, page 20:The woods are lovely, dark and deep
1923, Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningThis woods is part of the Campbell property. (uncommon)
Night after night, we both had similar dreams that our daughter was wandering around in a woods.
2009, James Preston Hardison, Miracles on the Poke-A-No, page 159:Where protection is not considered essential, the logical places for establishing a woods are on those portions of the farm which have steep slopes […].
1939, C. R. Tillotson, The Care and Improvement of the Farm Woods (Farmers' Bulletin No. 1177), page 18:These woods are part of the Campbell property.
- (attributive, plural) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
Deriveds
out of the woods · woodsman · Big Woods · Great North Woods · master of the woods · Lake of the Woods
Relateds
firth · thicket · grove · wald · shaw · holt · hurst · wood · weald · tree · wold