thicket

[ thik-it ]

noun

1. a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.

thicket

/ ˈθɪkɪt /

noun

1. a dense growth of small trees, shrubs, and similar plants

Other Words From

• thicket·ed thicket·y adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of thicket¹

before 1000; Old English thiccet (not recorded in ME), equivalent to thicce thick + -et noun suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of thicket¹

Old English thiccet; see thick

Example Sentences

Head back into those lodgepole thickets and you’ll come to a clearing where a giant looms.

From Outside Online

They drive about a mile and park the bus in a bamboo thicket.

From Vox

You can harness the wind and waves along the Gulf of Mexico, paddle through canyons, thickets, and pristine backcountry, or leap from granite cliffs into a crisp Hill Country lake.

From Outside Online

Both parties hoped the mutual engagement of civil rights organizations, police groups, and key lawmakers could steer the talks though the political thicket that emerged after Floyd’s death.

From Washington Post

To get to the Burger King location where I sampled the chain’s new, upgraded chicken sandwich, I traversed a veritable thicket of chicken-y goodness.

From Washington Post

The abandoned barracks of the Liberian Army lay just beyond in the tropical thicket.

From The Daily Beast

Just so with Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identity seems increasingly lost in a cyber thicket that no one can penetrate.

From The Daily Beast

After a while, as we were arguing about the Thicket, it occurred to us that all in the house save Arch and me had gone to bed.

From The Daily Beast

Sports Illustrated sent Shrake down at his insistence to do a piece on the beautiful and haunting Big Thicket area of East Texas.

From The Daily Beast

Biologists view the Big Thicket with profound wonder, and ecologists regard its passing with despair.

From The Daily Beast

We got off our horses and stooped over the man, forgetting for the moment that danger might lurk in the surrounding thicket.

From Project Gutenberg

No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.

From Project Gutenberg

A girl was moved to pity by a picture of a lamb caught in a thicket, and tried to lift the branch that lay across the animal.

From Project Gutenberg

The eyes of the huge brute opened instantly, and he had half risen before the loud report of the gun rang through the thicket.

From Project Gutenberg

And out of this thicket, alas, no two people ever emerge hand in hand in concord.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• clump
• underbrush