forest

1. 1.

   establish a forest on previously unforested land

   “afforest the mountains”

   Synonymsafforest

   Broaderplant

   Narrowerre-afforestreforest

Other forms of forest

plural

forests·

past tense

forested·

present participle

foresting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about forest

What does forest mean?

forest means "the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forest?

forest has 2 syllables: fo-rest. The stress falls on "fo". In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹəst/.

What is another word for forest?

Close synonyms include wood, woods, woodland, timberland, timber. 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 forest a common word?

forest is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with forest?

3 words rhyme with forest. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.