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sylvan

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1. sylvan - Noun

2. sylvan - Adjective

3. sylvan - Adjective Satellite

4. Sylvan - Proper noun

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a sylva; forestlike; hence, rural; rustic.

Abounding in forests or in trees; woody.

A fabled deity of the wood; a satyr; a faun; sometimes, a rustic.

A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough. James Frazer

To Sylvan truth was truth and all else was black heresy, though on occasion he had the very human difficulty of deciding which was which. Sheri S. Tepper

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view. William Bartram

O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee! William Wordsworth

In yonder Grave a Druid lies Where slowly winds the Stealing Wave! The Year's best Sweets shall duteous rise To deck its Poet's sylvan Grave! William Collins

Aldrich, Thomas. "The Unguarded Gates." Literature for Composition. Ed. Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, William E. Cain. Boston: Perdue, 2014. 1113. Print. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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