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Forester

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One who is trained in forestry.

n. One that inhabits a forest.

n. Any of various chiefly black moths of the family Agaristidae.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A person who practices forestry.

n. A person who lives in a forest.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

n. An inhabitant of a forest.

n. A forest tree.

n. A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An officer appointed to watch or keep a forest; one who has the charge of a forest; also, one whose occupation is the management of the timber on an estate or in a forest belonging to a government.

n. An inhabitant of a forest or wild country.

n. A forest-tree.

n. The giant kangaroo

n. The popular name of sundry moths of the family Zygœnidœ.

n. One who is versed in forestry.

n. One who practises forestry as a profession.

n. [capitalized] A member of any one of several benevolent and fraternal societies.

n. A pony raised in the New Forest.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. someone trained in forestry

n. English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)

Word Usage

"The forester was a married man, but he, too, began to annoy her from the first day."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

farmer husbandman sodbuster granger author

Cross Reference

langton's forester

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

woodman Woodward landreeve

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

woodman herdsman caretaker gamekeeper woodcutter