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timberland

timberland noun: forested land thought of in terms of its potential and value as timber.

Noun

timberland (plural timberlands)

  1. Forested land thought of in terms of its potential and value as timber.

Proper noun capitalized: Timberland

Timberland

  1. A village and civil parish (served by Timberland and Thorpe Tilney Parish Council) in North Kesteven district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1258).
  2. An unincorporated community in the town of Roosevelt, Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States.

Forms of timberland

pluraltimberlands
alternative formtimber-land

Plural of timberland: timberlands

Origin of timberland

From Middle English *tymbre-lond, from Old English timberland, tymberlond, equivalent to timber + land.

Questions about timberland

What does timberland mean?
Timberland means forested land thought of in terms of its potential and value as timber.
What part of speech is timberland?
Timberland can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of timberland?
The plural of timberland is timberlands.

Words near timberland in the dictionary

  1. timberish
  2. timberjack
  3. timberjacks
  4. Timberlake
  5. Timberlakes
  6. timberland
  7. timberlands
  8. timberless
  9. timberlike
  10. timberline
  11. timberline sagebrush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: timberland (page history and authors); Timberland (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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