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SYLVAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sylvan mean?
• SYLVAN (noun)
The noun SYLVAN has 1 sense:
1. a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods
Familiarity information: SYLVAN used as a noun is very rare.
• SYLVAN (adjective)
The adjective SYLVAN has 1 sense:
1. relating to or characteristic of wooded regions
Familiarity information: SYLVAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A spirit that lives in or frequents the woods
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
silvan; sylvan
Hypernyms ("sylvan" is a kind of...):
disembodied spirit; spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or characteristic of wooded regions
Synonyms:
silvan; sylvan
Context example:
a shady sylvan glade
Similar:
wooded (covered with growing trees and bushes etc)
Context examples
The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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