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

Word History and Origins

Origin of greenwood¹

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

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.

From Essence.com

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.

From Science News

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg