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Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

1. A forest in full leaf, as in summer.

   • Under the greenwood tree / Who loves to lie with me / And tune his merry note / Unto the sweet bird’s throat — / Come hither, come hither, come hither! / Here shall he see / No enemy / But winter and rough weather. — Shakespeare, "Under the Greenwood Tree".
   • 1819: “We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena’s deliverance may be received as an atonement.” — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

Derived terms

• go to the greenwood

People

• Greenwood (surname)

Places

Australia

• Greenwood, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth

Canada

• Greenwood, Calgary, Alberta, a neighbourhood
• Greenwood, British Columbia, a city
• Greenwood, Nova Scotia, a village
• Greenwood, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, a community in the Halifax Regional Municipality
• Greenwood (TTC), a station on the Bloor-Danforth line of the subway system in Toronto
• Greenwood Raceway, a harness horse-racing track in Toronto

United Kingdom

• Greenwood or Greenwode, a settlement near Heptonstall in West Yorkshire, England

United States

Communities

• Greenwood, Arkansas
• Greenwood, Delaware
• Greenwood, Florida
• Greenwood, Illinois
• Greenwood, Indiana
• Greenwood, Louisiana
• Greenwood, Maine
• Greenwood, Minnesota
• Greenwood, Mississippi
• Greenwood, Missouri
• Greenwood, Nebraska
• Greenwood, New York
• Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Greenwood, South Carolina
• Greenwood, Midland County, Texas
• Greenwood, Parker County, Texas
• Greenwood, Wise County, Texas
• Greenwood, Seattle, Washington
• Greenwood, Clark County, Wisconsin
• Greenwood, Taylor County, Wisconsin
• Greenwood, Vernon County, Wisconsin
• Greenwood Lake, New York, a village
• Greenwood Springs, Mississippi
• Greenwood Village, Colorado, a city
• Mount Greenwood, Chicago, Illinois

Landmarks

• Greenwood, Tennessee, a place appearing on the List of Registered Historic Places in Tennessee
• Greenwood Furnace State Park in Pennsylvania
• Greenwood Museum, Smyrna, New York
• Greenwood Observatory, a telescope in Jenny Jump State Forest, New Jersey

Other uses

• Greenwood Publishing Group
• Greenwood, an indie rock band, now known as Hope Dialect
• Greenwood the Great, also known as Mirkwood, a fictional forest in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth saga

See also

• Greenwood Cemetery
• Greenwood County
• Greenwood Township
• Greenwood, a vehicle in the Grand Theft Auto series
• Greenwood Dormitory from the manga and anime series Here is Greenwood