woodland

¹

[ noun wood-land, -luhnd; adjective wood-luhnd ]

noun

1. land covered with woods or trees.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods; sylvan:

   a woodland nymph.

Woodland

²

[ wood-luhnd ]

noun

1. a city in N central California.

woodland

/ ˈwʊdlənd /

noun

1. 1. land that is mostly covered with woods or dense growths of trees and shrubs
   2. ( as modifier )

      woodland fauna

Derived Forms

• ˈwoodlander, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of woodland¹

before 900; Old English wuduland. See wood ¹, land

Example Sentences

Hikers here will get to learn about the unique history, flora, and fauna of the region while traversing a loop along the coast of Lake Superior and through dense woodlands of spruce and fir.

From Outside Online

A dry storm ignited one especially intense woodland inferno.

From Science News For Students

It replaces the idea of a landscape in hibernation, of Frost’s slumbering woodland animated only by snow, and replaces it with a garden that is merely in a different mode of growth.

From Washington Post

An insulated tree wellIn woodlands with deep snow, finding shelter can be as easy as locating a naturally occurring tree well.

From Popular-Science

He goes alone into a field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance.

From Nautilus

So the elves in the Woodland Realm were an obvious [choice].

From The Daily Beast

And truly, Blake Lively and your fellow band of woodland sprites with spreadsheets, that is fine.

From The Daily Beast

Katrina, who was hung for witchcraft, is trapped in a woodland inferno between the two worlds.

From The Daily Beast

All around the funnel, the treetops in the woodland interior were bending and snapping in frantic circles.

From The Daily Beast

The 38-year-old was born Osama Lutfi in Panorama City, Calif., in the San Fernando Valley, and grew up in nearby Woodland Hills.

From The Daily Beast

Bits of woodland arePg 129 interspersed with bright green sheep pastures and high, almost mountainous, bluffs overhang the valley.

From Project Gutenberg

He only knew that the drive through the shady stretches of woodland grew suddenly to seem like little journeys into paradise.

From Project Gutenberg

On his left hand and behind him lay the rich belt of woodland that marked the courses of the rivers Cluden and Cairn.

From Project Gutenberg

Here and there an oak stood, fully green, among the tawny reds and golds of a flaming woodland.

From Project Gutenberg

All night the gale buffeted the high windows of the church, and howled over the upland and roared through the woodland.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• forest
• timberland
• wood