thicket
Syllables: thick·et/ˈθɪkɪt/
thicket noun: a dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
Noun
thicket (plural thickets)
- A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
- Suddenly from a lumpy tussock of old grass some twenty yards in front of them, with black-tipped ears erect and long hinder limbs throwing it forward, started a hare. It bolted for a thicket of alders.1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 18, in The Picture of Dorian Gray
- A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
- He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.
- Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and...2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18
- The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.
thicket meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
thicket in Hindi
- copse
- झाड़ी jhāṛī, वन van, जंगल jaṅgal
thicket in Tamil
- thicket
- புல் pul
thicket in Urdu
- جنگل, جھاڑی, خارزار
thicket in Telugu
- a thicket, a bower, or arbour
- కుంజము kuñjamu
More languagesFewer languages
- thicket in Malayalam
- പടർപ്പ്, തോപ്പ്, കുറ്റിക്കാട്
- thicket in Kannada
- ಹೊದರು, ಮೆಳೆ, ಕುತ್ತುರು, ತೋಪು
- thicket in Sanskrit
- गुल्म gulma
- thicket in Sinhala
- ගුමුව gumuwa, කැස kæsa
- thicket in Arabic
- عَرِين ʕarīn
- thicket in Persian
- بیشه bêše
- thicket in Thai
- พง pong
- thicket in Vietnamese
- bụi, bụi rậm
Examples of thicket in a sentence
- Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open, dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
- The deer darted from the thicket.
- He slithers like a limbo dancer under alder thickets girding the cliff faces.
Forms of thicket
| plural | thickets |
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Origin of thicket
Inherited from Middle English *thikket, from Old English þiccet, from þicce (“thick”) + Old English nominal suffix -et. Compare similar German Dickicht (“thicket”), which is first attested in the 17th century, however. Compare typologically Bulgarian гъстак (găstak), Macedonian густеж (gustež), Czech houští, Polish gęstwina (< *gǫstъ); Latin dūmus (akin to Latin dense).
Words formed from thicket
Phrases with thicket
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Questions about thicket
- What does thicket mean?
- Thicket means a dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
- What is thicket in Hindi?
- Thicket in Hindi is झाड़ी (jhāṛī), वन (van), जंगल (jaṅgal). See Thicket meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is thicket?
- Thicket is a noun.
- How do you pronounce thicket?
- Thicket is pronounced /ˈθɪkɪt/.
- What is the plural of thicket?
- The plural of thicket is thickets.
Words near thicket in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: thicket (page history and authors); புல் (Tamil) (page history and authors); thicket (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కుంజము (Telugu) (page history and authors); thicket (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thicket (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); කැස (Sinhala) (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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