Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of woodlander.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word woodlanders.

Examples

  • Some writers make them a derivation from Gael or Gaul, which names are said to signify "woodlanders;" others observe that Walsh, in the northern languages, signifies a stranger, and that the aboriginal Britons were so called by those who at a later era invaded the island and possessed the greater part of it, the

    The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • Some writers make them a derivation from Gael or Gaul, which names are said to signify "woodlanders;" others observe that Walsh, in the northern languages, signifies a stranger, and that the aboriginal Britons were so called by those who at a later era invaded the island and possessed the greater part of it, the

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • All the woodlanders were cheerfully tolerant of our intrusion, and of the fact that we had arrived incongruously by motor car.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Like true woodlanders, George and his wife Sue live perched 800 feet above the treetops of the ancient small-leaved lime woods that cover the south-facing bank of the Wye Gorge upstream from Tintern Abbey.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Like true woodlanders, George and his wife Sue live perched 800 feet above the treetops of the ancient small-leaved lime woods that cover the south-facing bank of the Wye Gorge upstream from Tintern Abbey.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Here we met the dozen woodlanders and four children who live as a cooperative in tented benders, growing organic food, milling their own timber from the woods, generating their own electricity and harnessing the hydraulic energy of the stream in a ram pump to raise their water uphill from the spring.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • All the woodlanders were cheerfully tolerant of our intrusion, and of the fact that we had arrived incongruously by motor car.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Woods have their own rich ecology, and their own people, woodlanders, living and working in and around them.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Here we met the dozen woodlanders and four children who live as a cooperative in tented benders, growing organic food, milling their own timber from the woods, generating their own electricity and harnessing the hydraulic energy of the stream in a ram pump to raise their water uphill from the spring.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Some of the woodlanders would even stay on until the end of November.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.