wood
The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
Noun 4 meanings
The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
“This table is made of wood.”
The wood from a particular species of tree.
“Teak is much used for outdoor benches, but a number of other woods are also suitable, such as ipé, redwood, etc.”
A forested or wooded area.
“A wood beyond this moor was viewed as a border area in the seventeenth century.”
Firewood.
“We need more wood for the fire.”
Verb 4 meanings
To cover or plant with trees.
To hide behind trees.
To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
“to wood a steamboat or a locomotive”
To take or get a supply of wood.
Etymology
From Middle English wode, from Old English wudu, widu (“wood, forest, grove; tree; timber”), from Proto-West Germanic *widu, from Proto-Germanic *widuz (“wood”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (“to separate”). The spelling developed as it did in wool.
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WOOD at a glance
WOOD has 4 letters and scores 8 points in Scrabble (W 4 + O 1 + O 1 + D 2) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,697 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with wood
All rhymes- GOOD6
- FOOD8
- BLOOD8
- UNDERSTOOD12
- STOOD6
- CHILDHOOD19
- NEIGHBORHOOD22
- MOOD7
- FLOOD9
- HOOD8
- NEIGHBOURHOOD23
- LIKELIHOOD18
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