| \SIL-vuh n\ | adjective
1. of, relating to, or inhabiting the woods.
2. consisting of or abounding in woods or trees; wooded; woody: a shady, sylvan glade.
| | Quotes | The scene thrills one like military music!…wide grass-carpeted avenues that branched hither and thither in every direction and wandered to seemingly interminable distances, walled all the way on either side with compact ranks of leafy trees whose branches met above and formed arches as faultless and as symmetrical as ever were carved in stone; and here and there were glimpses of sylvan lakes with miniature ships glassed in their surfaces.
-- Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrim's Progress, 1869 | | Origin | | Sylvan derives from the Latin term for "forest," sylva. It entered English in the mid-1500s. | |
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