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FORESTER

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Overview

FORESTER (noun)
  The noun FORESTER has 2 senses:

1. English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)play

2. someone trained in forestryplay

  Familiarity information: FORESTER used as a noun is rare.


English dictionary: Word details


FORESTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

C. S. Forester; Cecil Scott Forester; Forester

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))


Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone trained in forestry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

arboriculturist; forester; tree farmer

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

farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster (a person who operates a farm)


 Context examples 


Drag him forth, and let the foresters and the porters scourge him from the precincts!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then she was terribly alarmed, and she said to herself: What shall I say now when the forester comes home and sees that the children are gone?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Hola, mon petit,” said the old bowman, pushing his way through the crowd, with the huge forester at his heels.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Early next morning the forester got up and went out hunting, and when he was gone the children were still in bed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“There are many things which might be done,” said the forester thoughtfully.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The forester climbed up, brought the child down, and thought to himself: “You will take him home with you, and bring him up with your Lina.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

He is here to-night for herbergage, as are the others except the foresters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now the forester had an old cook, who one evening took two pails and began to fetch water, and did not go once only, but many times, out to the spring.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We are all freemen, and I trow that a yeoman's cudgel is as good as a forester's knife.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was once a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and as he entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)



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