A wood or forest in leaf (regarded as the typical scene of medieval outlaw life)
〈古〉绿林（中世纪落草者典型的出没地）
as modifierthe old greenwood adventurers
Example sentencesExamples
Our suggestion is that he was a forest official who had done something wrong and who had fled into the greenwood.
The novel focuses on Marian's growth to adulthood and her reluctant acceptance of her fate: she is to be the new Forestwife, the healer who lives alone in the greenwood and tends to those who need bodily and spiritual renewal.
She will be returning to the village where she grew up on Saturday to play a sort of Maid Marion role in the greenwood.
The area of the greenwood is usually taken as Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, or Barnsdale near Wentbridge in Yorkshire, but Barnsdale in Rutland is also a possibility.
Synonyms
forest, woodland, trees
Definition of greenwood in US English:
greenwood
nounˈɡrēnwo͝odˈɡrinwʊd
archaic
A wood or forest in leaf (regarded as the typical scene of medieval outlaw life)
〈古〉绿林（中世纪落草者典型的出没地）
as modifierthe old greenwood adventurers
Example sentencesExamples
She will be returning to the village where she grew up on Saturday to play a sort of Maid Marion role in the greenwood.
Our suggestion is that he was a forest official who had done something wrong and who had fled into the greenwood.
The novel focuses on Marian's growth to adulthood and her reluctant acceptance of her fate: she is to be the new Forestwife, the healer who lives alone in the greenwood and tends to those who need bodily and spiritual renewal.
The area of the greenwood is usually taken as Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, or Barnsdale near Wentbridge in Yorkshire, but Barnsdale in Rutland is also a possibility.