Thicket Definition

thĭkĭt
thickets
noun
thickets
A thick growth of shrubs, underbrush, or small trees.
Webster's New World
Something suggestive of a dense growth of plants, as in impenetrability or thickness.
American Heritage

A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

Wiktionary

(computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.

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Noun

Singular:
thicket
Plural:
thickets

Origin of Thicket

  • Middle English, from Old English þiccet from þicce "thick" + Old English nominal suffix -et

    From Wiktionary

  • Old English thiccet from thicce thick thick

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Thicket Sentence Examples

  • To her right was a blackberry thicket laden with berries – mostly red, but some dark.

  • Picker i n in 18 8 and 1 o respectively,amid the thicket Pickering.

  • They tethered their horses by a small thicket along the river bank.

  • The walking was easy, as the Elham Valley Way followed the Nailbourne through farmland and hawthorn thicket to the next village.

  • At such times he lies crouched upon his belly in a thicket until the animal approaches sufficiently near, when, with one prodigious bound, he pounces upon it.

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Words Starting With

TTHTHI

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TETKET

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