thicket
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of thicket
before 1000; Old English thiccet (not recorded in ME), equivalent to thicce thick + -et noun suffix
Explanation
A thicket refers to a dense growth of bushes or trees — what you try to avoid by tending to the plants in your backyard. The word thicket comes from the word thick, which means close together or dense. If you are "thick as thieves," then you are close friends. A thicket is a growth of trees, bushes, or shrubbery that is very close together, often making it difficult for people to walk through or for Red Riding Hood to find her way out of to Grandmother's.
Vocabulary lists containing thicket
"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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Example Sentences
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We looked through handwritten family papers dating back to when the Lascelles acquired the Thicket and Fortescue plantations in Barbados in 1787.
From BBC • Sep. 5, 2023
Robert Mays, 65, started going with his wife and mother-in-law to the The Lizard’s Thicket in Columbia, South Carolina, for weekly “Senior Lunch Bunch” gatherings.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2023
Calls for the Metropolitan Police Department to identify the man were repeated during the emotional meeting at the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center.
From Washington Times • Jan. 11, 2023
Lisa Starghill had those bases covered Saturday as she set up the pavilion at Turkey Thicket for a cookout for her daughter’s college graduation.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2022
“The glade is narrowest here—either we repel them, or the Thicket is lost.”
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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