woods

English Online Dictionary. What means woods‎? What does woods mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wʊdz/
• Rhymes: -ʊdz

Noun

woods

1. plural of wood

Noun

woods pl

1. (usually with plural construction, sometimes with singular construction) A dense collection of trees, usually one covering a relatively small area; usually smaller than a forest.

   These woods are part of the Campbell property.

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

   • 1923, Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening:
2. (military, attributive) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).

Usage notes

• The word woods in the sense of a woodland more often takes a plural verb or determiner (as in these woods are) than a singular verb or determiner (as in this woods is).
• In some varieties of English, only the plurale tantum form of the word is used in the sense of a woodland; thus, one does not say "I was lost in the wood" but rather "I was lost in the woods," and one does not speak of going from this wood to that wood but rather from these woods to those woods.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:forest

Derived terms

• Great North Woods
• Lake of the Woods
• out of the woods
• woodsman

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Verb

woods

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of wood

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