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forester.

A person who practices forestry.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A person who practices forestry.

  2. A person who lives in a forest.

    colloquial · obsolete
  3. Any of various species of kangaroo that inhabit bushland, especially the eastern grey kangaroo.

    Australia
  4. A moth in the family Zygaenidae.

  5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Lethe, Euphaedra and Harmilla.

Where this word comes from

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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