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Silvan

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

adj. Variant of sylvan.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. pertaining to the forest, or woodlands

adj. wooded, or covered in forest

n. tellurium

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to woods; composed of woods or groves; woody.

n. See sylvanium.

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

adj. relating to or characteristic of wooded regions

n. a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods

Word Usage

"A few trees scattered around gave an agreeable and silvan air to the place; and the chapel, that appeared on a rising ground at some distance from the hamlet, was constructed in a style of pleasing simplicity, which corresponded with the whole scene."

Equivalent

wooded

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

disembodied spirit spirit

Cross Reference

nemorous

Variant

sylvan sylvanium

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

woody woodland rural

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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