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woodland

[ noun woo d-land, -luh nd; adjective woo d-luh nd ]

/ noun ˈwʊdˌlænd, -lənd; adjective ˈwʊd lənd /

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noun

land covered with woods or trees.

adjective

of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods; sylvan: a woodland nymph.

Origin of woodland

before 900; Old English wuduland. See wood¹, land

Words nearby woodland

woodhen, woodhenge, woodhewer, woodhouse, woodhull, woodland, woodland caribou, woodland culture, woodlander, woodlark, woodlot

Definition for woodland (2 of 2)

Woodland

[ woo d-luh nd ]

/ ˈwʊd lənd /

noun

a city in N central California.

Example sentences from the Web for woodland

So the elves in the Woodland Realm were an obvious [choice].

‘No Regrets’: Peter Jackson Says Goodbye to Middle-Earth |Alex Suskind |December 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And truly, Blake Lively and your fellow band of woodland sprites with spreadsheets, that is fine.

Blake Lively Gets Her GOOP On |Tim Teeman |July 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Katrina, who was hung for witchcraft, is trapped in a woodland inferno between the two worlds.

‘Sleepy Hollow’ Is TV’s Craziest, Most Over-the-Top New Show ... And You Should Watch It |Amy Zimmerman |October 8, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
All around the funnel, the treetops in the woodland interior were bending and snapping in frantic circles.

Benjamin Franklin, America’s First Storm Chaser |Lee Sandlin |April 14, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

The 38-year-old was born Osama Lutfi in Panorama City, Calif., in the San Fernando Valley, and grew up in nearby Woodland Hills.

Was ‘Manager’ Sam Lutfi Britney Spears’s Savior, or Her Svengali? |Maria Elena Fernandez |October 30, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
The velvet dusk of Diane's eyes was sparkling with the zest of woodland adventure.

Diane of the Green Van |Leona Dalrymple
But, beautiful as it all was, the boys missed the songs of the woodland birds in the north.

The Boy Scouts at the Panama Canal |John Henry Goldfrap
No other manner of undergrowth gives to woodland in so great a degree the true forest-like character.

Wood and Garden |Gertrude Jekyll
My mother taught him the songs of the Baltic, and Hilda led his steps through the woodland with tales of hero and scald.

Harold, Complete |Edward Bulwer-Lytton
There are over two hundred acres, two-thirds of them woodland.

From the Bottom Up |Alexander Irvine

British Dictionary definitions for woodland

woodland

/ (ˈwʊdlənd) /

noun

land that is mostly covered with woods or dense growths of trees and shrubs
(as modifier)woodland fauna

Derived forms of woodland

woodlander, noun