1. forrest - Noun
2. Forrest - Proper noun
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A topographical surname from Middle English for someone who lived or worked in a Royal forest (area of woodland reserved for hunting)
forrest (plural forrests)
Obsolete spelling of forest
For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing. Tom Hanks
She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew. Edmund Spenser
After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side...He had never read a military book in his life, knew nothing about tactics, could not even drill a company, but had a genius of strategy which was original, and to me incomprehensible. Nathan Bedford Forrest
It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible. Dennis Muren
Forrest saw the war as a moral crusade, a fight for decency and order, and victory to the British would mean that the Almighty, who could not possibly be suspected of Republican sentiments, had blessed the British effort. Bernard Cornwell
It's a quality show and I think it came along at the right time, America wanted something stupid after the insanity of 9/11. The SpongeBob character is a naïve idiot but he also has a heart. He's a dumb, well-meaning person, like Forrest Gump or Jerry Lewis. Mr. Lawrence