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woods en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /wɵdz/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /wʉdz/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /wʊdz/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. (form-of, plural) plural of wood
    form of wood
  2. (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 Evening
    • This 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.
  3. (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

Synonyms

timber

woods en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /wɵdz/ (British, Southern, Standard)
  • /wʉdz/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /wʊdz/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of wood
    form of wood

Translations (1)

kix tàng (to pile up things and keep at particular place)