sylvan

sylvan is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.
2. adjective. Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.
3. adjective. A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.
4. noun. A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.
5. noun. a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods

   Synonyms: silvan

6. adjective. relating to or characteristic of wooded regions

   "a shady sylvan glade"

   Synonyms: silvan

Synonyms

silvan

Common word forms

sylvans, sylvanly, sylvanity, sylvanize

Words from these letters

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