tree
/tɹiː/
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British/t͡ʃɹɪj/
tree noun: a perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches. Also the alternative letter-case form of TREE.
Noun (1)
tree (plural trees or (obsolete) treen)
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- Hyperion is the tallest living tree in the world.
- Birds have a nest in a tree in the garden.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- The banana tree is a tall perennial herb: its trunk is not woody.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- He had the choice of buying a scratching post or a cat tree.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- He put a shoe tree in each of his shoes.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- We’ll show it as a tree list.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- family tree; skill tree
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- Marijuana.
- I like good pussy and I like good trees / Smoke so much weed you wouldn't believe2005, “Shake That”, in Eminem, Nate Dogg (lyrics), Curtain Call: The Hits
- Everyday man's on the block / Smoke trees (ah)2017 September 22, “Man's Not Hot”performed by Big Shaq [Michael Dapaah]
- A cross or gallows.
- Tyburn tree
- The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 5:30
- A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- The fifth Lenormand card.
Verb
tree (third-person singular simple present trees, present participle treeing, simple past and past participle treed)
- To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- The dog treed the cat.
- When hunted it [the jaguar] takes refuge in trees, and this habit is well known to hunters, who pursue it with dogs and pot it when treed.1897, Henry Howard et al., editors, Encyclopaedia of Sport, volume I, London: Lawrence & Bullen, page 599
- To place in a tree.
- Black bears can tree their cubs for protection, but grizzly bears cannot.
- To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
- to tree a boot
- Two suits and an overcoat hung in the closet over three pairs of carefully treed shoes.1930, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 14, in The Maltese Falcon, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 165
- To take refuge in a tree.
Proper noun capitalized: Tree
Tree (plural Trees)
- A surname.
Noun (2) capitalized: Tree
Tree (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
Noun (3) capitalized: TREE
TREE (uncountable)
- An extremely fast-growing function based on Kruskal's tree theorem.
Also used as
tree is also the alternative letter-case form of TREE.
tree is also the pronunciation spelling of three.
tree meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tree in Hindi
- large woody plant
- पेड़ peṛ, वृक्ष vŕkṣ
tree in Tamil
- large woody plant
- மரம் maram, விருக்ஷம் virukṣam
tree in Marathi
- large woody plant
- झाड jhāḍ, वृक्ष vŕkṣa
tree in Urdu
- large woody plant
- پیڑ peṛ, دَرَخْت daraxt
More languagesFewer languages
- tree in Bengali
- গাছ gach, বৃক্ষ brikkho
- tree in Telugu
- చెట్టు ceṭṭu, వృక్షము vr̥kṣamu
- tree in Malayalam
- മരം maraṁ, വൃക്ഷം vr̥kṣaṁ
- tree in Kannada
- ಮರ mara, ವೃಕ್ಷ vṛkṣa
- tree in Punjabi
- ਰੁੱਖ rukkha, ਰੁੱਖੜਾ m ਦਰੱਖ਼ਤ rukkhaṛā, ਪੇੜ peṛ, رُکّھ rukkh
- tree in Gujarati
- ઝાડ jhāḍ, વૃક્ષ vŕkṣ, તરુ taru
- tree in Odia
- ଗଛ gacha
- tree in Sanskrit
- तरु taru, द्रुम druma, वृक्ष vṛkṣa, कुज kuja
- tree in Sinhala
- ගස gasa
- tree in Assamese
- গছ gos, ডাঙৰ গছ daṅor gos
- tree in Nepali
- रूख rūkh
- tree in Pashto
- ونه wəna, درخته draxta
- tree in Tagalog
- puno, punongkahoy
- tree in Arabic
- شَجَر šajar, شَجَرَة šajara, شجر šɑgɑr, شجرة šɑgɑrɑ
- tree in Malay
- pokok, pohon
- tree in Indonesian
- pohon
- tree in Persian
- دِرَخْت deraxt, دَرَخْت daraxt, دار dâr
- tree in Thai
- ต้นไม้ dtôn-máai, เฌอ chəə, พฤกษา prʉ́k-sǎa, แผนภาพต้นไม้ pɛ̌ɛn-pâap dtôn-máai
- tree in Vietnamese
- cây, cần
- tree in Myanmar
- သစ်ပင် sacpang
- Sindhi
- وڻ vaṇu
- Dhivehi
- ގަސް gas
- Dzongkha
- ཤིང shing
Examples of tree in a sentence
- The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over.1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2:
- Whiskey with the team, got it bubblin' / I got trees in my luggage, I got tings out in London / Hope UK, what you say?2018, “Ace”, in Room 25, performed by Noname ft. Smino & Saba:
- Trinculo, keepe a good tongue in your head: If you proue a mutineere, the next Tree:[…]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First...
- Was it for Crimes that I had done / He groan’d upon the Tree?1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86:
Synonyms of tree
Forms of tree
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | trees |
| plural (obsolete) | treen |
| alternative form (obsolete) | tre |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | trees |
| present participle | treeing |
| past participle | treed |
| past | treed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Trees |
Origin of tree
PIE word *dóru From Middle English trau, tre, tree, treo, treou, trew, trewe, troe, trouȝh, trouȝgh, trow, trowe, from Old English trēo, trēow, trēu, trīo, trīow, trȳw (“tree; wood; forest; beam, cudgel, log; cross”), from Proto-West Germanic *treu, from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, thematic e-grade derivative of Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”). Related to tar, true. Cognates Cognate with Dutch teer (“tree”), Danish, Faroese, and Scanian træ (“tree; timber, wood”), Elfdalian trai (“tree; timber, wood”), Icelandic tré (“tree; wood”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk tre (“tree; wood”), Swedish trä (“wood; tree”), träd (“tree”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu, “piece of wood”); also Breton derv (“oak”), Cornish dar (“oak”), Irish dair (“oak”), Manx darragh (“oak; oaken”), Scottish Gaelic darach (“oak”), Welsh dâr (“oak”), Ancient Greek δόρυ (dóru, “tree; wood; spear”) (whence Greek δόρυ (dóry, “pike, spear”)), Albanian dru (“tree; wood”), Latvian darva (“tar”), Lithuanian derva (“tar; resin”), Belarusian дзе́рава (dzjérava, “tree”), дрэ́ва (dréva, “tree; wood”), Czech drvo, dřevo (“wood”), Polish drzewo (“tree; wood”), Russian де́рево (dérevo), дре́во...
Topographic surname for someone who lived near a conspicuous tree.
Words formed from tree
- money doesn't grow on trees
- the forest for the trees
- northern tree shrew
- snowy tree-cricket
- treecreeper
- tree-cricket
- tree farm
- tree fern
- tree frog
- tree hollow
- treehouse
- tree house
- tree hugger
- tree kangaroo
- tree kingfisher
- tree lawn
- treelength
- tree line
- tree pangolin
- tree pipit
- treeplank
- tree rat
- treeshed
- tree shrew
- treestand
- tree surgeon
- tree traversal
- treeture
- treewidth
- 2-3-4 tree
- 2-3 tree
- 2-4 tree
- 3-on-the-tree
- AA tree
- a bad tree does not yield good apples
- African milk tree
- almond tree
- Amazon Basin emerald tree boa
- amber tree
- American tree sparrow
- American tulip tree
- Amur cork tree
- and a partridge in a pear tree
- angelica tree
- ants climbing a tree
- ant tree
- apple tree
- apple-tree
- apricot tree
- ash tree
- at the top of the tree
- Australian green tree frog
- autograph tree
- axletree
- B+ tree
- banana tree
- banyan tree
- bark at the wrong tree
- bastard camphor tree
- bay tree
Phrases with tree
- W Tree
- bo tree
- R* tree
- R+ tree
- AVL tree
- bee tree
- big tree
- box tree
- cat tree
- cow tree
- DOM tree
- elm tree
171 more phrasesFewer phrases
- fig tree
- gem tree
- god tree
- gum tree
- hat tree
- haw tree
- hip tree
- imp tree
- ipê tree
- k-d tree
- lac tree
- may tree
- moh tree
- nut tree
- oak tree
- One Tree
- sad tree
- sea tree
- tea tree
- tree boa
- tree ear
- tree fox
- tree nut
- tree pit
- tree sap
- urn tree
- wig tree
- XML tree
- ymp tree
- bead tree
- beam tree
- bean tree
- bell tree
- boot tree
- brab tree
- call tree
- coat tree
- cork tree
- crab tree
- date tree
- dead tree
- deal tree
- dodo tree
- dool tree
- dove tree
- dule tree
- fake tree
- Fern Tree
- flea tree
- food tree
- hall tree
- hand tree
- hash tree
- hemp tree
- join tree
- lava tree
- lime tree
- lote tree
- mark tree
- Moon tree
- ople tree
- palm tree
- pear tree
- pine tree
- plum tree
- rain tree
- rape tree
- roof tree
- salt tree
- scar tree
- seed tree
- shea tree
- shii tree
- shoe tree
- silk tree
- soap tree
- tape tree
- tech tree
- tree bank
- tree bark
- tree bear
- tree boas
- tree calf
- tree disc
- tree disk
- tree duck
- tree fork
- tree isle
- tree moss
- tree nuts
- tree pits
- tree rats
- tree ring
- tree saps
- tree seat
- tree tent
- tree toad
- tree well
- tree worm
- tung tree
- up a tree
- weed tree
- wolf tree
- Xmas tree
- Yule tree
- beard tree
- beech tree
- birch tree
- blood tree
- bodhi tree
- boron tree
- bread tree
- bully tree
- cigar tree
- copal tree
- coral tree
- curry tree
- daroo tree
- Dyson tree
- event tree
- false tree
- fault tree
- fever tree
- flame tree
- fruit tree
- ghost tree
- glory tree
- grass tree
- hedge tree
- henna tree
- ivory tree
- Jesse Tree
- Judas tree
- kanya tree
- kapok tree
- Lemon Tree
- maple tree
- money tree
- olive tree
- order tree
- parse tree
- peach tree
- pecan tree
- phone tree
- plane tree
- prine tree
- Punic tree
- radix tree
- scale tree
- skill tree
- skunk tree
- smoke tree
- splay tree
- staff tree
- stink tree
- thorn tree
- tree brown
- tree cacti
- tree coral
- tree discs
- tree disks
- tree ducks
- tree farms
- tree ferns
- tree forks
- tree foxes
- tree frogs
- tree heath
- tree isles
- tree lawns
- tree lines
Words that rhyme with tree
Questions about tree
- What does tree mean?
- Tree means a perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- What is tree in Hindi?
- Tree in Hindi is पेड़ (peṛ), वृक्ष (vŕkṣ). See Tree meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use tree in a sentence?
- The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over.
- What part of speech is tree?
- Tree can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tree?
- Tree is pronounced /tɹiː/.
- What is the plural of tree?
- The plural of tree is trees.
Words near tree in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tree (page history and authors); Tree (page history and authors); TREE (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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