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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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Woods woods

It was originally based in Cwm George and Casehill Woods, near Dinas Powys, with permission from the Woodland Trust.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Knowsley Council leader Graham Morgan said he was "absolutely furious" that every piece of play equipment at the Finch Woods play park in Halewood, Knowsley had been spray painted with graffiti over the weekend.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

“I’ve never seen the available capacity relative to demand as low as it is today,” said Darren Woods, chief executive of Exxon, the nation’s third-largest oil refiner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Woods, who competes using her maiden name Sophie Amy Grant, set off on July 4 in Trieste, Italy, and finished on the Mediterranean coast of Monaco.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

The wagon jolted along on the homeward road through the Big Woods.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

In 1896, a local lumberjack near a small town in northeastern Wisconsin told of a bizarre green monster roaming the nearby woods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

"But I remind people they're not out of the woods yet," Tony says.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

A woman who lives alone in a house in the woods, of course – although she’s an artist, not a witch.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Bernard Roche, a 75-year-old former lifeguard, evacuated his cabin in the woods on Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

As they walked away from the cabin, they saw something coming toward them, glowing like foxfire out in the piney woods.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney