sylvan

/ˈsɪlvən/

Other forms: sylvans; sylvanly

The adjective sylvan refers to a shady, wooded area. The word suggests a peaceful, pleasant feeling, as though you were far away from the noise of modern life.

As a noun, sylvan means a being that inhabits the woods. The Roman god of woods and fields was known as Silvanus, sometimes also known as the half-man, half-goat sylvan called Pan. Shakespeare’s character Puck, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, seems based on a sylvan, and other authors used the image as well. The adjectival use of the Middle French word sylvain evolved in the mid-16th century. The word is most often used today to describe an idyllic wooded area.

Definitions of sylvan

1. adjective

   relating to or characteristic of wooded regions
   “a shady sylvan glade”

   synonyms: silvan

   wooded

   covered with growing trees and bushes etc
2. noun

   a spirit that lives in or frequents the woods
   synonyms: silvan

   type of:

   disembodied spirit, spirit

   any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings