bosket

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/ˈbɒskɪt/

noun

A small grove or copse of trees, a thicket.

OriginFrench bosquet ← Italian boschetto ← Late Latin busca →
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Meanings

bosket1

nounbosket (plural boskets)

plural boskets · alternative bosquet

  1. A small grove or copse of trees, a thicket.

    When he returned from a swim in the broad and deep brook beyond the bosquet, with wet hair and tingling skin, Van got the rare treat of finding his foreglimpse of live ivory accurately reproduced [...].

    1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 98

Bosket2

proper nounBosket (plural Boskets)

plural Boskets

  1. A surname.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*buskaz
  2. Frankish*busk
  3. Late Latinbusca
  4. Italianboschetto
  5. Frenchbosquet
  6. Englishbosket

Borrowed from French bosquet, from Italian boschetto, diminutive of bosco (“wood”), from Late Latin busca, buscus or boscus, from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (compare Old High German busk). Doublet of bouquet.

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Translations

Russian боске́т
  • боске́т (boskét)Translations

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Kobets
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bosket,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bosket.

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