Definition of "forest" in English

noun

1. A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.

2. Any dense collection or amount.

   • a forest of criticism

3. (historical) A defined area of land set aside in England as royal hunting ground or for other privileged use; all such areas.

4. (graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.

5. (computing, Microsoft Windows) A group of domains that are managed as a unit.

6. (uncountable) The color forest green.

verb

1. (transitive) To cover an area with trees.

   • From the view-point of national economy professor Fehér communicates to us most interesting facts, which he has established in an important question now of actuality : in the subject of foresting the Great Hungarian Plains.