black forest

1. 1.

   a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany

   SynonymsSchwarzwald

   Broaderforest

   Germany

Questions about black forest

What does black forest mean?

black forest means "a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany".

What is another word for black forest?

Close synonyms include Schwarzwald. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black forest a common word?

black forest is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.