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Forester

name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname originating as an occupation for someone who lived, or worked in a forest.
  2. 2
    A pupil of Forest School in Walthamstow.
  3. 3
    A locality in Dorset council area, north eastern Tasmania, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A person who practices forestry.
  2. 2
    someone trained in forestry wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who lives in a forest. colloquial, obsolete
  4. 4
    Any of various species of kangaroo that inhabit bushland, especially the eastern grey kangaroo. Australia
  5. 5
    A moth in the family Zygaenidae.
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  1. 6
    Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Lethe, Euphaedra and Harmilla.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English forester, a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier; equivalent to forest + -er. Displaced native Old English wuduweard.

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