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AFFORESTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does afforestation mean? 

AFFORESTATION (noun)
  The noun AFFORESTATION has 1 sense:

1. the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


AFFORESTATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

conversion (the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another)

Derivation:

afforest (establish a forest on previously unforested land)


 Context examples 


The afforestation of the district, however, and its conversion into a royal demesne had clipped off a large section of his estate, while other parts had been confiscated as a punishment for his supposed complicity in an abortive Saxon rising.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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