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  Woods

  noun

  Eldrick Tiger, born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
• woods
  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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Example Sentences

“It all has to click,” Eddie Wood, Leonard’s nephew and the CEO of the Woods Brothers team, said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

But Jay Woods, chief market strategist at Freedom Capital Markets, says a resolution in Iran could be a sell the news moment.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

As it turned out, the end of Bretton Woods resolved the balance-of-payments problem since under a floating exchange rate system the balance always nets to zero.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Vlad Signorelli is president of Bretton Woods Research, a macroeconomic forecasting firm.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

“But I don’t think they can get to the Red Woods right now any more than we can.”

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova