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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English forest, from Old French forest, from Early Medieval Latin forestis. The Latin could be: * from foris (“outside”), as in forestis (silva) "(wood) outside," * or from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *furhisti (“forest, fir-grove, wooded land”), equivalent to fir + hurst. In which case, related to Old English fyrhþe (“forested land”), Old High German forst, forsti (“forest”), Old Norse fýri (“pine forest”). Doublet of frith. Cognate with Dutch vorst (“copse, grove, woodland”), German Forst (“forest”). In this sense, mostly displaced the native Middle English wode, from Old English wudu (modern English wood) and Middle English wald, wold, wæld, from Old English wald, weald (modern English wald, weald, wold).

derived from *furhisti✻ — “forest, fir-grove, wooded land”
derived from forestis
derived from forest
inherited from forest

Definitions

1
A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
- Who after Archimagoes fowle defeat / Led her away into a foreſt wilde, / And turning wrathfull fyre to luſtfull heat, / With beaſtly ſin though her to haue defilde, / And made the vaſſal of his pleaſures vilde.
2
Any dense collection or amount.
- a forest of criticism
- Squealing and still propelled by the kick, the calf scrabbled through the forest of legs and into the open.
3
A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other…
A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.
- […] in places such as the Forest of Bowland there is hardly a tree in sight and much of the area is a vast tract of almost barren gritstone hills and peat moorland.
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1. 4
  A graph with no cycles
  A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.
  - Let H be a traversal of an undirected graph G = (X, U). For given H, the set U can be split into set of tree edges from the forest G_H and the set of inverse edges that do not belong to this forest.
2. A group of domains that are managed as a unit.
3. The color forest green.
4. 7
  To cover an area with trees.
  - From the view-point of national economy professor Fehér communicates to us most interesting facts, which he has established in an important question now of actuality : in the subject of foresting the Great Hungarian Plains.
5. A surname.
6. A city, the county seat of Scott County, Mississippi, United States.
7. A number of townships in the United States, in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan (3), Minnesota…
  A number of townships in the United States, in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan (3), Minnesota (2), and Missouri, listed under Forest Township.
8. A hamlet in Ellerton-on-Swale parish, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ2700).
9. A locality in Circular Head Council, north western Tasmania, Australia.
10. Nottingham Forest F.C.
11. A male given name
  A male given name: Alternative form of Forrest.

The neighborhood

synonymforest
synonymwoods
synonymwoodland
neighbortimber
neighborarboretum
neighbororchard
neighborpinetum
neighborstand
neighborbackwoods
neighborboscage
neighborbosk
neighborbosque
neighborbrake
neighborcloud forest
neighborcoppice

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at forest. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at forest. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at forest

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

Etymology

Definitions

The neighborhood

Derived

Vish — recursive loop