MEANING
Relating to or characteristic of woods and forested places.
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- sylvan retreat
- sylvan landscape
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A sylvan retreat lay beyond the last cultivated field.
The sylvan landscape closed around the narrow track.
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Primary category: setting. Forms: Comparative more sylvan; superlative most sylvan where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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