Meaning and Origin
What does the name Forest mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Malaysia says the name Forest means "French origin meaning 'woodsman or woods'. The Forest variation of Forrest, nudges the meaning more toward the woods and away from the woodsman".
- A user from Massachusetts, U.S. says the name Forest is of English origin and means "Beauty of nature".
- An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated.
- [Eng. Law] A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own.
Etymology: OF. forest, F. forêt, LL. forestis, also, forestus forestum foresta, prop., open ground reserved for the chase, fr. L. foris foras, out of doors, abroad. See Foreign
- The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
- Land that is covered with trees and shrubs
- Establish a forest on previously unforested land ("afforest the mountains")
From Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Medieval Latin forestis (“open wood”), first used in the Capitularies of Charlemagne in reference to the royal forest (as opposed to the inner woods, or parcus), of obscure and uncertain origin. Compare Old Saxon forest, forst (“forest”), Old High German forst (“forest”), Modern German Forst (“forest”).
Displaced native Middle English weald, wald (“forest, weald”), from Old English weald, Middle English scogh, scough (“forest, shaw”), from Old Norse skógr, and Middle English frith, firth (“forest, game preserve”), from Old English fyrhþ.
- A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
- Any dense collection or amount.
- a of criticism
- (historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
- (graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
- The colour forest green.
forest was also found in the following language(s): Middle English, Middle French, and Old French