forester

Inherited from Middle English forester, a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier; equivalent to forest +‎ -er. Displaced native Old English wuduweard.

forester (plural foresters)

1. A person who practices forestry.
2. (obsolete or colloquial) A person who lives in a forest.
3. (Australia) Any of various species of kangaroo that inhabit bushland, especially the eastern grey kangaroo.
4. A moth in the family Zygaenidae.
5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Lethe. Other members of this genus are called tree browns and wood browns.

• Justicia Themis forester
• proto-forester

• Foerster, fosterer, reforest

• fforester, fforster, ffoster, forrester, forster, forstere, foster, fostere

Borrowed from Old French forestier; equivalent to forest +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˌfɔrisˈteːr/, /ˈfɔristər/, /fɔ(r)sˈteːr/, /ˈfɔ(r)stər/

forester (plural foresters)

1. A forester; a forest warden.

   Synonym: wodeward

2. A huntsman; one who hunts.

• English: forester (obsolete foster)
• Scots: forester

• “forstē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “foster, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.