woods
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- noun
- /wʊdz/
:
bosque
- The deer gracefully wandered through the woods, searching for food among the trees.
He went to the woods and he hung himself.
- He went to the woods and he hung himself.
- I mean, I, I went to the woods to live deliberately.
- They're into like, you know, the woods and Cougars, the animal.
- This Tapias out in the woods some comments.
- And he drifts back into the woods, glides and just disappears.
- But what if the thing that these girls found in the woods was somehow?
- Like, and it would just the farm had a nice woods where you could run.
Examples
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One autumn afternoon, as we walked with our dogs in Mallow Woods, he confronted me with my secret.
Fiction book (1994) -
It's an old state children's home in the back of Cotter's Woods.
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That thing was free to walk the woods and go God knows where.
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Anyway, into the Winter Woods we go.
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We are quite literally in the woods, not too far off.
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I mean, we are really deep in the woods and it's a hidden paradise.
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I think I'll take a walk in the woods and commune with trees.
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The fear I had about returning to Cypress Woods as Gisselle proved valid.
Fiction book (1995) -
The children played hide and seek in the woods near their house.
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After a long hike, we finally found a peaceful spot in the woods for a picnic.
Synonyms
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A large area of land covered mostly with trees and bushes
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An area with many trees where people can walk
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Land covered with trees that can be used for wood
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Land with many trees and bushes, not a deep forest
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A remote forest area far from towns and roads
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Land covered with trees used to make wood
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A small area of land with trees often used to grow wood or shelter animals
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Land that has many trees or is kept to grow trees
A thick natural forest left alone by people
A flat area with trees and wet sandy soil that often floods
Idioms
- Offensive
A funny informal way to say yes very clearly and strongly
Compounds
A large mushroom you can eat that has many overlapping caps and grows at the base of trees
A large edible mushroom with many overlapping caps that looks like a hen and grows at the base of trees
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Etymology
The word woods comes from the Old English word wudu, which meant 'wood' or 'trees'. It is the same root as the familiar word wood for the material, so woods are places full of wood, that is, many trees, which explains why we call a small forest the 'woods'.