Sekirov Dictionary

sylvan

/ˈsɪl.vən/

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 3

adjective3

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Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands.
- Broke by the jutting Land, on either side: / In double Streams the briny Waters glide. / Betwixt two rows of Rocks, a Sylvan Scene / Appears above, and Groves for ever green: […] — 1697
•
Residing in a forest or wood.
- Now, my Sacontalá, you are becomingly decorated: put on this lower vest, the gift of sylvan goddesses. — 1790
Wooded, or covered in forest.

noun2

One who resides in the woods.
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A fabled deity of the wood; a faun, a satyr.
- The sylvans who guarded the palace were bearded buffoons, lazy and stupid but fierce. Without the help of the Silenus, prefect of the satyrs, the cocky satyrs may have fought with the sylvans. — 1976

forms

sylvans · more sylvan · most sylvan

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