Word.ws English Dictionary

Forest of Lyme

Forest of Lyme proper noun: a forest and geographical area of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, England, roughly centred on the modern-day Potteries.

Proper noun

the Forest of Lyme

  1. A forest and geographical area of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, England, roughly centred on the modern-day Potteries.

Origin of Forest of Lyme

Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *limos (“elm”). However, note the objections of Coates (2003), who argued for a derivation from, via Proto-Brythonic, Latin līmes (“boundary”).

Questions about Forest of Lyme

What does Forest of Lyme mean?
Forest of Lyme means a forest and geographical area of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, England, roughly centred on the modern-day Potteries.
What part of speech is Forest of Lyme?
Forest of Lyme is a proper noun.

Words near Forest of Lyme in the dictionary

  1. Forest Meadows
  2. forest oak
  3. forest oaks
  4. Forest of Ardennes
  5. Forest of Dean
  6. Forest of Lyme
  7. Forest Park
  8. forest plot
  9. forest plots
  10. forest polecat
  11. forest polecats

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Forest of Lyme (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Forest of Lyme.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/forest_of_lyme. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.