Forrest

See also: forrest

English

Etymology

English surname, from the noun forest. Also adopted and translated from the word for "forest" in various other languages by settlers.

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Forrest

  1. A topographical surname from Middle English for someone who lived or worked in a Royal forest (area of woodland reserved for hunting).
    • 2002 July 19, Damon Hack, “Boxing: Despite Not Having the Title, Mosley Garners Attention”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 6 January 2021, retrieved 6 January 2014:
      Whether it is the soul food restaurant on 38th Street, where he and his father and trainer, Jack Mosley, dined earlier in the week, or at the workouts leading up Saturday's WBC welterweight championship rematch against Vernon Forrest at Conseco Fieldhouse, Mosley cannot go anywhere without hearing the shouts of supporters who want to get close to him.
    • 2014, Eric L. Haralson, Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, page 497:
      Forrest later attacked Willis in New York, knocking him to the ground; lawsuits proliferated as Willis sued Forrest for assault, and Forrest countersued for libel.
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  3. A town in the Shire of Colac Otway, south western Victoria, Australia

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