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for·est·er

(fôr′ĭ-stər, fŏr′-)

1. One who is trained in forestry.

2. One that inhabits a forest.

3. Any of various chiefly black noctuid moths of the subfamily Agaristinae.

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forester

(ˈfɒrɪstə)

1. (Forestry) a person skilled in forestry or in charge of a forest

2. (Animals) any of various Old World moths of the genus Ino, characterized by brilliant metallic green wings: family Zygaenidae

3. a person or animal that lives in a forest

4. (Forestry) (capital) a member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, a friendly society

Forester

(ˈfɒrɪstə)

(Biography) C(ecil) S(cott) 1899–1966, English novelist; creator of Captain Horatio Hornblower in a series of novels on the Napoleonic Wars

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for•est•er

(ˈfɔr ə stər, ˈfɒr-)

n.

1. an expert in forestry.

2. an officer having responsibility for the maintenance of a forest.

3. an animal of the forest.

4. any moth of the family Agaristidae, typically black with two yellowish or whitish spots on each wing.

[1250–1300; Middle English < Old French]

For•est•er

(ˈfɔr ə stər, ˈfɒr-)

n.

C(ecil) S(cott), 1899–1966, English novelist.

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Noun	1.	Forester - English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966) C. S. Forester, Cecil Scott Forester
	2.	forester - someone trained in forestry arboriculturist, tree farmer farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster - a person who operates a farm

Translations

حِراجي، حارِس غابَه

lesník

forstmandskovfoged

Förster

metsäläinenmetsänhoitaja

garde forestier

erdészerdőkerülőerdőlakóerdőőr

skógræktarmaîur, skógarvörîur

forestale guardia forestale

forstmann skogforvalter

лесник

ormancı

林务员

forester

[ˈfɒrɪstəʳ] N (= expert) → ingeniero/a m/f de montes; (= keeper) → guardabosques mf inv

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

forester

[ˈfɒrɪstə^r] n → forestier/ière m/fforest fire n → incendie m de forêtforest floor n → sol m de la forêtforest ranger n → garde mf forestier/ière

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

forester

n → Förster(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

forester

[ˈfɒrɪstəʳ] n → guardia forestale

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

forest

(ˈforist) noun

1. (a large piece of) land covered with trees.

2. an area of land in which animals, especially deer, are kept. a deer forest.

ˈforested adjective

covered with forest.

ˈforester noun

a person who works in a forest or is involved in forestry.

ˈforestry noun

(the science of) growing and looking after forests.

adjective

a forestry worker.

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Here for some years dwelt one Hugh Fitzooth as Head Forester, with his good wife and son Robert.

These three enemies one day got possession of the King's ear and whispered therein to such good--or evil--purpose that Hugh Fitzooth was removed from his post of King's Forester. He and his wife and Rob, then a youth of nineteen, were descended upon, during a cold winter's evening, and dispossessed without warning.

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There was once a forester who went into the forest to hunt, and as he entered it he heard a sound of screaming as if a little child were there.

The forester climbed up, brought the child down, and thought to himself: 'You will take him home with you, and bring him up with your Lina.' He took it home, therefore, and the two children grew up together.

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It was well for Robin Hood that that same forester's head was spinning with ale, or else he would never have taken another step.

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"We are all freemen, and I trow that a yeoman's cudgel is as good as a forester's knife.

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Meanwhile Vasili Andreevich, with his feet and the ends of the reins, urged the horse on in the direction in which for some reason he expected the forest and forester's hut to be.

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``Gramercy for thy sack,'' said Wamba; ``but think'st thou it is lawful for me to aid you to transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester?''

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But an I would, I could not, for that the accuser came masked by night, and told the forester, and straightway got him hence again, and so the forester knoweth him not."

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"What of your husband, the forester? Always the same with you people.

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It is impossible for me to say what terrific meaning was hidden in the words of this brown forester, but I know that the other passengers looked on in a sort of admiring horror, and that presently the boat was put back to the wharf, and as many of the Pioneers as could be coaxed or bullied into going away, were got rid of.

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Before he had, however, proceeded a hundred yards, he met the three foresters already returning from their unsuccessful pursuit.