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13 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)
originFrom Medieval Latin afforestātiō, from afforestāt-, past participial stem of afforestō (“to convert into a forest”) (from Latin ad- + Late Latin forestis (“forest”) + -ō (suffix forming verbs)), + Latin -iō (suffix forming action nouns). By surface analysis, afforest + -ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- raffinates 16
- raffinate 15
- raffinose 15
- forestation 14
- affaires 14
- affiants 14
- afforest 14
- affronts 14
- fanfares 14
- finfoots 14
- forfeits 14
- taffetas 14