Sylvan

/ˈsɪl.vən/

Synonyms for "sylvan" (58 found)

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Closest matches (12)

Strong matches (17)

Adjective(6 words)
Noun(1 words)
forested category
Adjective(2 words)

Related words (29)

Adjective(11 words)
pastoralpastoral imageryrusticsilvanwood godwoodedwoodlandwoodland imagerywoodland spiritwoodswoodsy
Noun(2 words)
silvanwoodland ecosystem

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

15 entries
aesthetic conceptaesthetic descriptordeitydescriptive termdisembodied spiritecological characteristicenvironmentenvironmental attributeimagerylandscapelandscape descriptormotifmythical beingnatural featurespirit

More specific

13 entries
arborouscopsedryadforest imagerygrovegrovedhamadryadpastoral motiftimberedwood nymphwooded landscapewoodland moodwoodsy

Collocations

9 entries
sylvan ambiencesylvan deitysylvan forestsylvan grovesylvan landscapesylvan settingsylvan shadesylvan woodsylvan woods

Inflections

3 entries
more sylvanmost sylvansylvans

Derivations

3 entries

similar

1 entries

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It was in mid-summer, when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation.

Source: tatoeba (5749611)

For a time absolute silence brooded upon the sylvan scene, save for the humming of insects and the twittering of birds.

Source: tatoeba (11840748)

The poets of the Augustan age would have celebrated such a meadow with the warmest raptures, and peopled its green expanse with all the sylvan demi-gods of their beautiful mythology.

Source: tatoeba (11960049)

Broke by the jutting Land, on either ſide: / In double Streams the briny Waters glide. / Betwixt two rows of Rocks, a Sylvan Scene / Appears above, and Groves for ever green: […]

Source: wiktionary

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