WOODLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodland mean? 

• WOODLAND (noun)
  The noun WOODLAND has 1 sense:

1. land that is covered with trees and shrubs

  Familiarity information: WOODLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Land that is covered with trees and shrubs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

forest; timber; timberland; woodland

Hypernyms ("woodland" is a kind of...):

biome (a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate)

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodland"):

greenwood (woodlands in full leaf)

riparian forest (woodlands along the banks of stream or river)

silva; sylva (the forest trees growing in a country or region)

tree farm (a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use)

Instance hyponyms:

Black Forest; Schwarzwald (a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany)

Sherwood Forest (an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band)

Wilderness (a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War)

 Context examples 

It was very still here in the heart of the woodlands.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scientists observed a long-term trend of decreasing woodlands and increasing shrublands.

(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)

From the side of the plateau on which we were, slopes of woodland, with occasional glades, stretched down for five or six miles to the central lake.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This would be a perfect weekend to take an unplanned trip to a woodland, mountainous area (Taurus is all about nature and greenery).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

To identify whether there are aspects of auditory perception that are universal across cultures, McDermott and his team have traveled into places ranging from Boston to remote Amazonia, where they record sounds ranging from the clatter of a noisy diner to the stillness of a woodland path.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

All the valley at my right hand was full of pasture- fields, and cornfields, and wood; and a glittering stream ran zig-zag through the varied shades of green, the mellowing grain, the sombre woodland, the clear and sunny lea.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As he journeyed he bit into a crust which remained from his Beaulieu bread, and he washed it down by a draught from a woodland stream.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Surprisingly, the loss of woodlands tended to be greater in protected forest reserves than in the more populated Chobe District.

(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)

While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sir, we have been in the wars together, and I have seen many a brave following but never such a set of woodland boys as this.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)