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  1. adjective Relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions.
  2. adjective Located in or inhabiting a wood or forest.
  3. adjective Abounding in trees; wooded.

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  • One fine evening Borrow hired a calash and drove out to Marina Rotze, "a kind of sylvan garden," about one and a half miles out of Moscow, where this particular class of Romanys resorted. —  The Life of George Borrow
  • However, I have not now the same reverence for the sylvan gods I was so much inclined to worship in my last sleep; and, moreover, I am the first to see the deer this time. —  Wild Western Scenes
  • [Illustration: STATUE OF PRAXITELES 'RESTING FAUN, WHICH HAWTHORNE HAS DESCRIBED AND BROUGHT TO LIFE IN THE CHARACTER OF DONATELLO] “I looked at the Faun of Praxiteles, and was sensible of a peculiar charm in it; a sylvan beauty and homeliness, friendly and wild at once. —  The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • But they are of sylvan (or SALVAGE) nature, affecting the shade; and burst out, for theft and arson, sometimes at great distances, no calculating where. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • “In spite of the inexperience with which the instrumental score is filled up, the opening scene of 'Norma' in the dim druidical wood bears the true character of ancient sylvan antiquity. —  The Great Italian and French Composers
 

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  1. Medieval Latin sylvānus, from Latin Silvānus, god of the woods, from silva, forest.
 

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/ˈsɪlvən/
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