Synonyms of woods

woods

noun

plural of wood

as in forest

a dense growth of trees and shrubs covering a large area

deer and mountain lions live in those woods

Synonyms & Similar Words

• forest
• woodland
• timberland
• forestland
• timber
• grove
• arboretum
• plantation
• thicket
• copse
• coppice
• brake
• chaparral
• stand
• brushwood
• woodlot
• scrubland
• greenwood
• wildwood
• covert

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of woods

Aerial footage on Sunday showed a bomb disposal robot roaming between the vans in woods near the base. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026

Certain that Kaczynski is the man responsible for a string of bombings that killed three people and injured 23 others, Miller secretly travels to his isolated cabin in the Montana woods. — Jane Lacroix, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026

Despite the sequential improvement in membership renewal rates, Wall Street will need to see a few more solid results on this front before deciding Costco is out of the woods. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

Matson hiding the safe and assisting Paul in retrieving it from the woods. — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

And there's more at stake than just the ability to spend a weekend in the woods or on the water. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2026

Unfortunately, before the morning breaks, both the Marshal and the outlaw lay dead in the woods. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026

When the Farmer destroys the flock’s beloved pumpkin patch, Shaun turns mad scientist to fix the problem, only for events to spiral out of control as a wild beast roams the woods of Mossingham. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2026

Conlon wrote a book about another 1983 kidnapping, this one human, a supermarket executive rescued in the woods here after 23 days in IRA captivity and Conlon says Shergar's captors would have found a soft landing in Leitrim. — Jon Wertheim, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2026