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Forrest¹

Where it comes from

English surname, from the noun forest. Also adopted and translated from the word for "forest" in various other languages by settlers.

proper noun

  1. A topographical surname from Middle English for someone who lived or worked in a Royal forest (area of woodland reserved for hunting). Whether it is the soul food restaurant on 38th Street, where he and his father and trainer, Jack Mosley, dined earlier in the week, or at the workouts leading up Saturday's WBC welterweight championship rematch against Vernon Forrest at Conseco Fieldhouse, Mosley cannot go anywhere without hearing t
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A town in the Shire of Colac Otway, south western Victoria, Australia

forrest²

noun forrests

  1. obsolete Obsolete spelling of forest

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Closest in meaning: edwin, pressley, alan, pogue, forest, jd, bedford, timberland, woodland, woods, bush, rainforest, jungle, sylva, silva, greenwood

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@misc{forrest_2026,
  title = {forrest},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/forrest},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}