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forester

forester noun: a person who practices forestry.

Noun

forester (plural foresters)

  1. A person who practices forestry.
  2. (colloquial, obsolete) A person who lives in a forest.
  3. (Australia) Any of various species of kangaroo that inhabit bushland, especially the eastern grey kangaroo.
  4. A moth in the family Zygaenidae.
  5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Lethe, Euphaedra and Harmilla.

Proper noun capitalized: Forester

Forester

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for someone who lived, or worked in a forest.
  2. A pupil of Forest School in Walthamstow.
  3. A locality in Dorset council area, north eastern Tasmania, Australia.

forester meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Tagalog

forester in Hindi

forester, woodman, inhabitant of a forest
आटविक āṭvik

forester in Tamil

கானகக் காவலர்

forester in Kannada

ಕಾಟ

forester in Tagalog

person practicing forestry
dalubgubat
More languagesFewer languages
forester in Indonesian
rimbawan, ahli kehutanan

Forms of forester

pluralforesters

Plural of forester: foresters

Origin of forester

Inherited from Middle English forester, a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier; equivalent to forest + -er. Displaced native Old English wuduweard.

Words formed from forester

  • agroforester
  • angled red forester
  • bamboo forester
  • blue forester
  • brown forester
  • Ceylon forester
  • common blue-banded forester
  • common Ceres forester
  • common forester
  • common orange forester
  • common pink forester
  • common red forester
  • common Themis forester
  • dull forester
  • elegant forester
  • forester moth
  • forestership
  • forestress
  • gold-banded forester
  • Janetta Themis forester
  • Justicia Themis forester
  • pale forester
  • pallid forester
  • proto-forester
  • rusty forester
  • scarce red forester
  • splendid Themis forester
  • tailed red forester
  • true forester
  • widespread forester Euphaedra medon)

Phrases with forester

Questions about forester

What does forester mean?
Forester means a person who practices forestry.
What is forester in Hindi?
Forester in Hindi is आटविक (āṭvik). See Forester meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is forester?
Forester can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of forester?
The plural of forester is foresters.

Words near forester in the dictionary

  1. forested
  2. forestem
  3. forestems
  4. forestep
  5. foresteps
  6. forester
  7. foresters
  8. forestership
  9. foresterships
  10. forestes
  11. forestflies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forester (page history and authors); Forester (page history and authors); आटविक (Hindi) (page history and authors); forester (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); forester (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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