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Grammar : Noun
Spell : woo d
Phonetic Transcription : wʊd



Définition of wood

Origin :
  • Old English wudu, earlier widu "tree, trees collectively, the substance of which trees are made," from Proto-Germanic *widuz (cf. Old Norse viðr, Danish and Swedish ved "tree, wood," Old High German witu "wood"), perhaps from PIE *widhu- "tree, wood" (cf. Welsh gwydd "trees," Gaelic fiodh- "wood, timber," Old Irish fid "tree, wood"). Woodsy is from 1860. Out of the woods "safe" is from 1792.
  • noun forest
Example sentences :
  • A party of fugitives were to meet her in a wood, that she might conduct them North.
  • Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
  • It left three deep dents in the wood, and the door was kicked open again.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • I dismounted, and went forward to strike it with a piece of wood.
  • Extract from : « Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia » by Thomas Mitchell
  • But is there no gate because we find none on the edge of the wood where it seemed to lie?
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • I can but see an old rusty nail, with bits of stone and slips of wood.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • In using this device, only a coal or a wood stove is practical.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 5 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • What are these bits of stone, and of wood, and rusted nails, which are set out in front of him?
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Such is the story of the hole which you have marked, and of the smudge upon the wood.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • All the wood knew, and the Indians knew, but not the Spaniards.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
  • He could smell Indians in hiding and wood smoke three leagues away.
  • Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

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