Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is trained in forestry.
- noun One that inhabits a forest.
- noun Any of various chiefly black noctuid moths of the subfamily Agaristinae.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An officer appointed to watch or keep a forest; one who has the charge of a forest; also, one whose occupation is the management of the timber on an estate or in a forest belonging to a government.
- noun An inhabitant of a forest or wild country.
- noun A forest-tree.
- noun The giant kangaroo
- noun The popular name of sundry moths of the family Zygœnidœ.
- noun One who is versed in forestry.
- noun One who practises forestry as a profession.
- noun [capitalized] A member of any one of several benevolent and fraternal societies.
- noun A pony raised in the New Forest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.
- noun An inhabitant of a forest.
- noun rare A forest tree.
- noun (Zoöl.) A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who practices
forestry . - noun A person who lives in a
forest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone trained in forestry
- noun English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The forester was a married man, but he, too, began to annoy her from the first day.
Resurrection 2003
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Muller's clothing was scattered about, and he judged from it that the forester was a man of about his own size.
The Hosts of the Air 1890
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"Nevertheless," I answered, "Raud the forester was the first to shelter me, and I do not forget."
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The forester was a married man, but he, too, began to annoy her from the first day.
Voskresenie. English Leo Tolstoy 1869
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"The forester is a fox," replied Karl; "no one will catch him; but as to the farmer and his young wife, Heaven have mercy on them!"
Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855
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Anton called the forester to his side, and got much information from him.
Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855
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Last October veterans of that battle sprung into action with a Hands off our Forest HOOF campaign, helped by the coincidence that Labour's leader in the Lords, ex-cabinet minister, Jan Royall, is herself a local "forester".
Forestry sell-off: public and political opposition forced U-turn 2011
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The Duties of state forester, in this chapter called the forester, shall act state forester. for the commonwealth in suppressing the gypsy and brown tail moths and tent caterpillars; shall promote the per - petuation, extension and proper management of the public and private forest lands of the commonwealth; shall give such a course of instruction to the students of the Massa - chusetts state college on the art and science of forestry as may be arranged by the trustees of the college and the forester; and shall perform such other duties as may be imposed upon him by the governor and council.
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The director of the Duties of division of forestry in the department of conservation, in state forester. this chapter called the forester, shall act for the common - wealth in suppressing the gypsy and brown tail moths and tent caterpillars; shall promote the perpetuation, extension and proper management of the public and private forest lands of the commonwealth; shall give such a course of in - struction to the students of the Massachusetts state college on the art and science of forestry as may be arranged by the trustees of the college and the forester; and shall per - form such other duties as may be imposed upon him by the governor and council.
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Foster comes from "forester", you know, the king's forester.
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