Meaning of woods | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a surname
2. A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.
   plural, sometimes, usually
3. A topographic surname from Middle English, variant of Wood. Possibly patronymic.
   countable, uncountable
4. For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
   attributive, plural
5. A number of places:
   countable, uncountable
6. An unincorporated community in Liberty County, Florida, United States.
   countable, uncountable
7. An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
   countable, uncountable
8. An unincorporated community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States.
   countable, uncountable
9. A community in Carling township, Ontario, Canada.
   countable, uncountable
10. A locality near Owen, South Australia.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“These woods are part of the Campbell property.”

“This woods is part of the Campbell property. (uncommon)”

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep”

“Where protection is not considered essential, the logical places for establishing a woods are on those portions of the farm which have steep slopes […].”

“Night after night, we both had similar dreams that our daughter was wandering around in a woods.”

“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.”

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