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forester

noun

  1. occupation
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Wiktionary

name

  1. A surname originating as an occupation for someone who lived, or worked in a forest.
  2. A pupil of Forest School in Walthamstow.
  3. A locality in Dorset council area, north eastern Tasmania, Australia.

noun

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English forester, a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier; equivalent to forest + -er. Displaced native Old English wuduweard.

  1. A person who practices forestry.
  2. A person who lives in a forest.
  3. Any of various species of kangaroo that inhabit bushland, especially the eastern grey kangaroo.
  4. A moth in the family Zygaenidae.
  5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Lethe, Euphaedra and Harmilla.