Dictionary Entry

woods

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/wudz/Used In Literature ↓

A large area covered with trees and undergrowth.

In a Sentence

“The children loved to play hide-and-seek in the dense woods behind their house.”

Origin

Middle English, from Old English wudu 'wood, forest'.

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Poetry examples for “woods”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

The boys are up the woods with day
To fetch the daffodils away,

We'll to the woods no more,
The laurels are all cut,

By hanging woods and hamlets
That gaze through orchards down

There, like the wind through woods in riot,
Through him the gale of life blew high;

When I would muse in boyhood
The wild green woods among,
And nurse resolves and fancies

Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls,
And leave you in lone woods, or empty walls!

Where mix'd with slaves the groaning martyr toil'd:
Huge theatres, that now unpeopled woods,
Now drain'd a distant country of her floods:

A thousand sylvans, demigods, and gods,
That haunt our mountains and our Alban woods.
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise,

'Within this plant my hapless parent lies:'
And when in youth he seeks the shady woods,
Oh! let him fly the crystal lakes and floods,

Where mixed with slaves the groaning martyr toiled:
Huge theatres, that now unpeopled woods,
Now drained a distant country of her floods: