woods
nounAU, US, UK /wʊdz/ · UK /wɵdz/
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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.
- These woods are part of the Campbell property.
- This woods is part of the Campbell property. (uncommon)
4 more examples
- The woods are lovely, dark and deep1923, Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
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Government, Military, Politics, War For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
- Derived terms
- Big Woods, Great North Woods, Lake of the Woods, master of the woods, out of the woods, woodsman