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Definition: Firewood |
FirewoodNoun1. Wood used for fuel; "they collected and cut their own firewood". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "firewood" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Wood, round, cleft or sawn, and generally otherwise refuse material cut into short lengths or hogged(hog fuel)for burning. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: FirewoodSynonym: Fuelwood. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fuel | Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Firewood |
| English words defined with "firewood": cordwood ♦ heap ♦ pile ♦ stack ♦ Tallwood ♦ woodshed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "firewood": CASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA, CELTIS IGUANAEUS, Clym of the Clough ♦ FOREST WORKER ♦ PARK AIDE, park technician ♦ ranger aide ♦ Smoke Silver ♦ TERMINALIA LUCIDA, TESSARIA INTEGRIFOLIA ♦ Woods. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And chop the firewood! (AlfTales; writing credit: Bradley Kesden; Mitchell Kriegman) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Russian poster: showing women working outdoors, collecting firewood, gathering hay, feeding the animals]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Photographed tied up to the shore on the Western Rivers during the Civil War. Firewood is stacked in the foreground. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Resident of "Eighty Acres" with load of firewood, Glassboro, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Little girl carrying firewood on farm near Northome, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Evicted sharecropper chopping firewood. Butler County, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Son and daughter of Lon Allen's loading firewood on the trailer for delivery to the customer. Near Iron River, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Members of the transient camp saw up old sleds for firewood. Near Hagerman Lake, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rural slums near Van Buren, Maine, showing firewood gathered for winter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Some good Vermont hard maple is delivered to the victory store at Hardwick by A.J. Larrabee who is making his donation to the war fund sale in firewood. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Goldes woman pulling firewood sledge. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Firewood" by Per Hardestam Commentary: "A stack of firewood." | "Firewood" by João Estêvão A. De Freitas Commentary: "Firewood." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The projected demand for waste-treatment equipment (like sawdust-briquetting machines to produce firewood) is growing. (references) | |
Economic History | Pakistan | The principal forest products are timber, principally for house construction and furniture, and firewood. (references) |
Human Rights | Somalia | The rapes usually followed looting attacks by bandits and occurred when women and girls left the camps to herd goats or collect firewood or at night when bandits enter the refugee camps. (references) |
Trade | Pakistan | The exceptions are items on the GOP's banned or restricted list (to ensure their availability in the home market), which include: intoxicants and intoxicating liquors, endangered species of wild fauna and flora, charcoal and firewood, wood and timber, fissionable material, anti-personnel land mines, antiques, some chemicals, edible oil and counterfeit products. (references) |
Women | Angola | In much of the country, women constituted a growing percentage of persons with disabilities, as they were most likely to become victims of landmines while foraging for food and firewood in agricultural areas. (references) |
Worker Rights | Eritrea | It is common for rural children who do not attend classes to work on family farms, fetching firewood and water, and herding livestock among other activities. (references) |
Niger | The majority of rural children regularly worked with their families from a very early age--helping in the fields, pounding grain, tending animals, getting firewood and water, and other similar tasks. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Firewood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.47% of the time. "Firewood" is used about 190 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.47% | 189 | 22,353 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.53% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 190 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "firewood": pine firewood. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "firewood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | حطب (chop, firing, hew, log, wood), خشب الوقود. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дърва за горене. (various references) | |
Chinese | 柴 , 木柴, 樵 (gather wood). (various references) | |
Czech | palivové dříví. (various references) | |
Danish | braende (calcine, fuelwood, roast, wood fuel). (various references) | |
Dutch | brandhout (fuelwood, wood fuel). (various references) | |
Esperanto | brulligno. (various references) | |
Finnish | puu (timber, tree, wood), polttopuut (fuelwood), polttopuu (fuelwood, wood fuel), halot. (various references) | |
French | bois de chauffage (fire-bote), bois à brûler (fire wood). (various references) | |
Frisian | brânhout. (various references) | |
German | Brennholz (fuelwood, wood fuel). (various references) | |
Greek | καυσόξυλο (fuelwood, wood fuel). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עצי הסקה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tüzelőfa, tűzifa. (various references) | |
Italian | legna da ardere (fuelwood, wood fuel). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 薪 (fuel, kindling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たきぎ (fuel, kindling), たきもの, しば (brushwood, lawn, sod, turf). (various references) | |
Korean | 장작. (various references) | |
Manx | speiltyn, fuygh aile, bwonyn. (various references) | |
Maya | si'. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | irewoodfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lenha (timber, wood). (various references) | |
Romanian | lemne de foc (fire wood). (various references) | |
Russian | растопка (fire-lighter, kindling, kindling wood, kindling-wood), дрова (fire wood, wood, woods). (various references) | |
Scottish | connadh (fuel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drvo za ogrev, drva (logs, lumber, wood). (various references) | |
Spanish | leña (brush, brushwood, fuel, wood). (various references) | |
Swedish | ved (wood). (various references) | |
Turkish | yakacak odun, çıra (kindling, kindling wood). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | паливо (fuel), дрова (wood). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | củi (firing, living). (various references) | |
Welsh | tanwydd (fuel), cynnud (fuel). (various references) | |
Yucatec | si'. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | kibir. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | calita, calitas, gremio, gremium. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | aêsma. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "firewood": firewoods. (additional references) | |
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"Firewood" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fairwood, fibrinoid, finewood, firegod, Firswood, Firwood, Forewood. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "firewood" (pronounced fī"erwuh'd or fī"rwuh'd) |
| 4 | -er w uh' d | Leatherwood, Underwood. |
| 3 | -w uh' d | Blackwood, boxwood, corkwood, Cottonwood, Dagwood, deadwood, devilwood, ironwood, logwood, dogwood, driftwood, greasewood, Greenwood, hardwood, heartwood, plywood, pulpwood, Redwood, rosewood, softwood, teakwood, wildwood, Wormwood. |
| 3 | -w uh' d | Blackwood, boxwood, corkwood, Cottonwood, Dagwood, deadwood, devilwood, ironwood, Leatherwood, logwood, dogwood, driftwood, greasewood, Greenwood, hardwood, heartwood, plywood, pulpwood, Redwood, rosewood, softwood, teakwood, Underwood, wildwood, Wormwood. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-o-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: woodier. | |
-2 letters: foodie, foredo, oroide, roofed, weirdo, woodie, woofed, woofer. | |
-3 letters: dower, dowie, fiord, fired, fordo, fried, oorie, rodeo, rowed, weird, wider, wifed, wired, wooed, wooer, wried. | |
-4 letters: defi, dire, doer, door, dore, drew, feod, fido, fire, food, ford, fore, froe, frow, ired, odor, ordo, owed, redo, reif, ride, rife, rode, rood, roof, weir. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-o-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: firewoods. | |
+5 letters: foreshadowing, waterflooding. | |
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