NEW FOREST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Forest mean? 

• NEW FOREST (noun)
  The noun NEW FOREST has 1 sense:

1. an area of woods and heathland in southern Hampshire that was set aside by William I as Crown property in 1079; originally a royal hunting ground but now administered as parkland; noted for its ponies

  Familiarity information: NEW FOREST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW FOREST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area of woods and heathland in southern Hampshire that was set aside by William I as Crown property in 1079; originally a royal hunting ground but now administered as parkland; noted for its ponies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("New Forest" is a part of...):

Hampshire (a county of southern England on the English Channel)

 Context examples 

Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Archers from the New Forest and the Forest of Bere, billmen from the pleasant country which is watered by the Stour, the Avon, and the Itchen, young cavaliers from the ancient Hampshire houses, all were pushing for Christchurch to take service under the banner of the five scarlet roses.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)