What does woods mean?
Definitions for woods
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word woods.
Princeton's WordNet
forest, wood, woodsnoun
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
Wiktionary
woodsnoun
A dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area; smaller than a forest.
woodsnoun
(Military) For chemical behavior purposes, trees in full leaf (coniferous or medium-dense deciduous forests).
Woodsnoun
An English topographic surname, variant of Wood.
woodsnoun
Plural form of woodsman.
ChatGPT
woods
Woods is generally defined as an area covered in trees, smaller than a forest. It is an ecosystem dominated by trees and other woody plants, forming a habitat for various species of animals and plants. It's sometimes also referred to as a woodland.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
WOODS
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Woods is ranked #144 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Woods surname appeared 177,425 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 60 would have the surname Woods.
58.3% or 103,439 total occurrences were White.
35.3% or 62,631 total occurrences were Black.
2.7% or 4,861 total occurrences were of two or more races.
2.3% or 4,169 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.8% or 1,561 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.4% or 745 total occurrences were Asian.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of woods in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of woods in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of woods in a Sentence
Tell you what, if he (Woods) could get on the fairway, he'd probably be back to where he was, his iron play is just ridiculous how good it is right now, it's really special.
It is a harsh environment. For instance, having no running water, it’s like I’ve been in the woods camping for a year.
We lived in the woods, we camped, fishing, hunting. The three of us did everything together for a lot of years.
My first introduction to colonialism looked a lot like me waking up at four in the morning, five in the morning, every morning, to sounds of my ancestors screaming from outside my window, coming from the ground, coming from the earth, i followed those screams into the woods as a child … and was taught by my ancestors in those woods, in the forms of nature spirits, in the forms of elementals, in the forms of natural deities and old gods. While I was out there, I was taught many things and my mind was decolonized.
It is possible that one of the children is in the woods or some other place, but the likelihood is decreasing as time goes by.
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