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bosque

Syllables: bos·que/bɒsk/US/bɑsk/

bosque is the rare spelling of bosk.

Meaning of bosk

Noun

bosk (plural bosks)

  1. (obsolete except dialectal) A bush.
  2. (archaic) A thicket; a small wood.
    • Meantime, through well-known bosk and dell, / I'll lead where we may shelter well.1815, Walter Scott, “Canto Fifth”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co....
    Synonyms:
    copse, grove

Noun

UK/ˈbɒsˌkeɪ/US/ˈbɑsˌkeɪ/

bosque (plural bosques)

  1. (Southwestern, US) A gallery forest found growing along a river bank or on the flood plain of a watercourse.
    • [page 495] He drove them with great slaughter from the bosque they had then seized, repulsed a determined charge of their Lancers, made with audacity and desperation, and was master of the field. [...] [page 496] The heavy bosques in our front were terminated by a drift of sand extending from the...1862 February 23, Benjamin S[tone] Roberts, “Operations in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. February 1 – September 20, 1862. [No. 2. Report of Col. Benjamin S. Roberts, Fifth New Mexico Infantry.]”...

Proper noun capitalized: Bosque

Bosque (plural Bosques)

  1. A surname.

Forms of bosque

Noun
pluralbosques
Proper noun
pluralBosques

Origin of bosque

See bosk.

Borrowed from Spanish bosque (“forest”), from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busc (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”); perhaps also influenced by bosk. The word is a doublet of bush.

Words that rhyme with bosque

Questions about bosque

What does bosque mean?
Bosque means a gallery forest found growing along a river bank or on the flood plain of a watercourse.
What is bosque the rare spelling of?
Bosque is the rare spelling of bosk.
What part of speech is bosque?
Bosque can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce bosque?
Bosque is pronounced /bɒsk/ (UK).
What is the plural of bosque?
The plural of bosque is bosques.

Words near bosque in the dictionary

  1. Bosporan
  2. Bosporanic
  3. Bosporans
  4. Bosporian
  5. bosporus
  6. bosque
  7. Bosque County
  8. bosques
  9. Bosqueses
  10. bosquet
  11. bosquets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bosque (page history and authors); Bosque (page history and authors); bosk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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