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greenwood¹

  • /ˈɡɹiːnwʊd/ UK
  • /ˈɡɹinwʊd/ US

Where it comes from

From Middle English grene wode (“a forest that is leafed out, a greenwood" also "unseasoned firewood”), equivalent to green + wood.

noun greenwoods · green-wood · greenewood

  1. countable, uncountable A forest in full leaf, as in summer. Within a greenewood ſweet of mirtle ſauor, when as the earth was with fayre flowers reuested, I ſaw a ſhepherd, with his Nymph that reſted, […]
  2. countable, uncountable Wood that is green; in other words, not seasoned. For the Spleene. 58 R. Aſhen keyes, and the Greenewood, burne them, & make Lye of the Aſhes: […]
  3. countable, uncountable Certain half-shrubby species of genista.

Greenwood²

  • /ˈɡɹin.wʊd/

Rhymes with -iːnwʊd

Where it comes from

* Probably from green + wood, an area covered with trees.

* The village in Nova Scotia was named for the heavily forested location of the settlement.

proper noun Greenwoods

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A part of Greenwood/Greenbriar, Calgary, Alberta.
  3. countable, uncountable A minor city in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, British Columbia.
  4. countable, uncountable A village in Kings County, Nova Scotia.
  5. countable, uncountable A community in the Regional Municipality of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
  6. countable, uncountable A hamlet in the city of Pickering, Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario.
  7. countable, uncountable A community in Laurentian Valley township, Renfrew County, Ontario.
  8. countable, uncountable A locality in Mohave County, Arizona.
  9. countable, uncountable A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County.
  10. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California.
  11. countable, uncountable A town in Sussex County, Delaware.
  12. countable, uncountable A town in Jackson County, Florida.
  13. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Mitchell County, Georgia.
  14. countable, uncountable A former community in Jerome County, Idaho.
  15. countable, uncountable A village in McHenry County, Illinois.
  16. countable, uncountable A city in Johnson County, Indiana.
  17. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Wayne County, Indiana.
  18. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Wells County, Indiana.
  19. countable, uncountable A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
  20. countable, uncountable A suburban town in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
  21. countable, uncountable A town in Oxford County, Maine.
  22. countable, uncountable A neighbourhood of the town of Wakefield, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  23. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Ely Township, Marquette County, Michigan.
  24. countable, uncountable A minor city in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
  25. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi.
  26. countable, uncountable A city in Jackson County and Cass County, Missouri.
  27. countable, uncountable A village in Cass County, Nebraska.
  28. countable, uncountable A town in Steuben County, New York.
  29. countable, uncountable A neighbourhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nickname: Black Wall Street. “Even after this utter devastation, most people in the Greenwood community, most African Americans in Tulsa said to themselves and to their larger community, ‘we shall not be moved.’ And they rebounded and rebuilt and created an incarnation of Black Wall Street that would surpass its initial version
  30. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Logan Township, Blair County, Pennsylvania.
  31. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
  32. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Greenwood County, South Carolina.
  33. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.
  34. countable, uncountable A ghost town in Lawrence County, South Dakota.
  35. countable, uncountable A neighbourhood of Clarksville, Montgomery County, Tennessee.
  36. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Midland County, Texas.
  37. countable, uncountable A small town in Parker County, or Wise County, Texas.
  38. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Wise County, Texas.
  39. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.
  40. countable, uncountable A former community in Bath County, Virginia, now flooded.
  41. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Whatcom County, Washington.
  42. countable, uncountable A neighbourhood in north-central Seattle, Washington.
  43. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia.
  44. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia.
  45. countable, uncountable A ghost town in Fayette County, West Virginia.
  46. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Morgan County, West Virginia.
  47. countable, uncountable A city in Clark County, Wisconsin.
  48. countable, uncountable A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
  49. countable, uncountable A town and unincorporated community in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
  50. countable, uncountable A number of townships in the United States, listed under Greenwood Township.
  51. countable, uncountable A rural locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland.
  52. countable, uncountable A suburb of Perth in the City of Joondalup, Western Australia.
  53. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Greenwood County

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: forest, westland, westport, timberland, wildwood, wood, woodland, woods, bush, bushland, forestland, woodlot, holt, spinney, copse, thicket

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@misc{greenwood_2026,
  title = {greenwood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/greenwood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}