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BLACK FOREST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Black Forest mean?
• BLACK FOREST (noun)
The noun BLACK FOREST has 1 sense:
1. a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany
Familiarity information: BLACK FOREST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A hilly forest region in southwestern Germany
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
Black Forest; Schwarzwald
Instance hypernyms:
forest; timber; timberland; woodland (land that is covered with trees and shrubs)
Domain region:
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
Context examples
Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Leaving the thumbless archer and his brood, the wayfarers struck through the scattered huts of Emery Down, and out on to the broad rolling heath covered deep in ferns and in heather, where droves of the half-wild black forest pigs were rooting about amongst the hillocks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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