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greenwood

1

[ green-wood ]

noun

  1. a woods or forest when green, as in summer.


Greenwood

2

[ green-wood ]

noun

  1. a city in W South Carolina.
  2. a city in NW Mississippi.
  3. a town in central Indiana.

greenwood

/ ˈɡriːnˌwʊd /

noun

  1. a forest or wood when the leaves are green: the traditional setting of stories about English outlaws, esp Robin Hood
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of greenwood1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; green, wood 1
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Example Sentences

Tulsa, and the rest of the country, has the opportunity to focus on the people who built Greenwood, not just on the violence committed against them.

From Vox

We see this as a precedent for other Greenwood communities around this nation, who’ve also suffered such violence.

From Time

One of the manifestations of this is the way the Greenwood district is being gentrified, so the sister in the film with the hair salon who is priced out.

I want to validate the claims of Greenwood residents who long said we need to find these people.

From Time

Those who stayed rebuilt their homes and business themselves, in spite of the city’s attempts to block those efforts while blaming Greenwood residents for the violence.

“There used to be a lot more of us,” said Greenwood, who serves on the board of directors for the National Audubon Society.

W.C. Handy, the so-called Father of the Blues and composer of “St. Louis Blues,” is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in the Bronx.

Flemister Greenwood, 8, smiled on seeing his dad and his dad smiled back as if he had no troubles at all.

Article updated to include additional comments from executive director of the Montana Republican Party, Bowen Greenwood.

Within an hour of arriving in Greenwood, Miss., we had found our “backlot” for The Help.

Fred Greenwood stood in front of him, shaking so much with mirth that he could scarcely stand.

Had his legs been longer, Fred Greenwood would have pronounced him the equal of Jumbo himself.

He realized, while describing the meeting with Motoza, the important bearing that it had upon the disappearance of Fred Greenwood.

Hazletine had set out with the belief that the vagrant Sioux was the one chiefly concerned in the disappearance of Fred Greenwood.

He must have had an idea that the father of the Greenwood boy has enough money to pay a good sum to recover him unharmed.

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