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Definition of "greenwood" []

  • A wood or forest with green foliage. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "greenwood" in a sentence
  • "It is an image of liberation, but inevitably it reads as a reminder of constraint: The greenwood is a fiction, a dream out of Shakespeare's plays, not a place where actual human lives can be led."
  • "Merry in the greenwood is the note of horn and hound,"
  • "Fairer far than all the greenwood is my sweetheart's face to cheer me,"