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  Woods

  noun

  Eldrick Tiger, born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
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  woods

  plural noun

  closely packed trees forming a forest or wood, esp a specific one

Woods

American  

[woodz] / wʊdz /

noun

1. Eldrick Tiger, born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.

2. Lake of the. Lake of the Woods.

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woods ¹ British  

/ wʊdz /

plural noun

1. closely packed trees forming a forest or wood, esp a specific one

2. another word for backwoods

3. the woodwind instruments in an orchestra See also wood 1

4. informal an area or locality

   a quiet neck of the woods

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Woods ² British  

noun

1. See Lake of the Woods

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Woods ³ British  

/ wʊdz /

noun

1. Tiger, real name Eldrick Woods . born 1975, US golfer: youngest US Masters champion and first Black golfer to win a major championship; winner of the US Masters (1997, 2001–02, 2005), US Open (2000, 2002, 2008), British Open Championship (2000, 2005–06), and the PGA Championship (1999, 2000, 2006-07); in 2001 he became the only player to hold all four major titles at once

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Example Sentences

The turtle, which is native to North and Central America, was found at Penllegare Valley Woods, Swansea.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Jay Woods, chief strategist at Freedom Capital Markets, sees this as potentially dangerous for passive investors as well.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

“The index wasn’t designed to do that,” Woods added.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

That gives this latest boom more staying power than the Tiger Woods wave of the late 1990s.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

I shook my head and tried to point in the direction of The Woods.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff