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HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
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sylvan

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

syl=van

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun sylvan has 1 sense

sylvan(n = noun.person) silvan - a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods;

is a kind of disembodied spirit, spirit

Adjective sylvan has 1 sense

sylvan(s = adj.all) silvan - relating to or characteristic of wooded regions; "a shady sylvan glade"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

sylvan, a. [See Silvan, a.].

Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. [1913 Webster]
"The traditional memory of a rural and a sylvan region . . . is usually exact as well as tenacious." [1913 Webster]
Abounding in forests or in trees; woody. [1913 Webster]

sylvan, n. [L. Sylvanus, better Silvanus. See Silvan, a.].

A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic. [1913 Webster]

"Her private orchards, walled on every side,
To lawless sylvans all access denied." [1913 Webster]

sylvan, n. [Sylva + furfuran.].

A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

sylvan, adj. (also silvan)
1 a of the woods. b having woods; wooded.
2 rural.

Etymology

F sylvain (obs. silvain) or L Silvanus woodland deity f. silva a wood

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THESAURUS

sylvan

afforestational, arboreous, back, back of beyond, back-country, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, bosky, braky, bushy, copsy, dendrologic, forest, forestal, forested, hinterland, outback, reforestational, scrubby, shrubby, silvicultural, timbered, up-country, virgin, waste, wild, wilderness, wooded, woodland, woodsy, woody

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ROGET THESAURUS

sylvan

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.