Definition of tree

"tree" in the noun sense

1. tree

a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

2. tree, tree diagram

a figure that branches from a single root

"genealogical tree"

3. Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917)

"tree" in the verb sense

1. corner, tree

force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape

2. tree

plant with trees

"this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer"

3. tree

chase an animal up a tree

"the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"

"her dog likes to tree squirrels"

4. tree, shoetree

stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree

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Quotations for tree

Cause not a tree to die. [ King of Siam ]

Little moments make an hour.
Little thoughts a book,
Little seeds a tree or flower.
Water-drops a brook;
Little deeds of faith and love
Make a home for you above. [ Anonymous ]

You ask an elm-tree for pears. [ Proverb ]

A good tree is a good shelter. [ Proverb ]

A twig in time becomes a tree. [ Motto ]

A shroved tree may stand long. [ Proverb ]

A great tree hath a great fall. [ Proverb ]

Friendship is a sheltering tree. [ Coleridge ]

I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white.
The violets, and the lily-cups
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set,
The laburnum on his birthday -
The tree is living yet. [ Hood ]

The sandal-tree perfumes when riven
The axe that laid it low:
Let man who hopes to be forgiven
Forgive and bless his foe. [ Sadi ]

Such as the tree such is the fruit. [ Proverb ]

You cannot push a man far up a tree. [ Proverb ]

A tree in the desert is still a tree. [ Talmud ]

Remove an old tree and you'll kill it. [ Proverb ]

A little garden square and walled;
And in it throve an ancient evergreen,
A yew-tree, and all round it ran a walk
Of shingle, and a walk divided it. [ Tennyson ]

Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree! [ Campbell ]

He that loves the tree loves the branch. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The ripest peach is highest on the tree. [ James Whitcomb Riley ]

Like a lovely tree
She grew to womanhood, and between whiles
Rejected several suitors, just to learn
How to accept a better in his turn. [ Byron ]

The tree that God plants no wind hurts it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No tree in all the grove but has its charm
Though each its hue peculiar. [ Cowper ]

The Raven's house is built with reeds, -
Sing woe, and alas is me!
And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,
High on the hollow tree;
And the Raven himself, telling his beads
In penance for his past misdeeds.
Upon the top I see. [ Thos. Darcy McGee ]

Grief should be the instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. [ Byron ]

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit. [ Philemon ]

Sink not in spirit: who aimeth at the sky
Shoots higher much than he that means a tree. [ George Herbert ]

A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut tree,
The more they are beaten, the better they be. [ Proverb ]

You saw out your tree before you cut it down. [ Proverb ]

Just as the twig is bent the tree is inclined. [ Pope ]

But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,
That cannot so much as a blossom yield
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry. [ William Shakespeare ]

'Tis education forms the common mind;
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. [ Alexander Pope ]

The slender acacia would not shake
One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake
As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake.
They sighed for the dawn and thee. [ Tennyson ]

A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree. [ Proverb ]

That life is long which answers life's great end;
The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name;
The man of wisdom is the man of years. [ Edward Young ]

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. [ Proverb ]

Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. [ Gray ]

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows.
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews
Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost,
Weeps only tears of poison. [ Coleridge ]

A pretty fellow, to make an axle-tree for an oven! [ Proverb ]

When the tree is fallen all go with their hatchet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A tree is known better by its fruit than its leaves. [ Proverb ]

The tree that grows slowly keeps itself from another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The old withie-tree would have a new gate hung at it. [ Proverb ]

You are like fig-tree fuel, much smoke and little fire. [ Proverb ]

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit,
He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

All the tree-tops lay asleep, like green waves on the sea. [ Shelley ]

When a tree is once a falling every one cries down with it. [ Proverb ]

He who plants a walnut tree expects not to eat of the fruit. [ Proverb ]

Plant the crab tree where you will it will never bear pippins. [ Proverb ]

When a knave is in a plum tree he hath neither friend nor kin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Tie a dog to a crab-tree, and he will never love verjuice more. [ Proverb ]

The tree is no sooner down, but every one runs for his hatchet. [ Proverb ]

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation robes. [ Pope ]

Happy are they who can create a rose-tree, or erect a honeysuckle. [ Gray ]

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [ Barere ]

I resemble the poplar, - that tree which, even when old, still looks young. [ Joubert ]

A circulating library in a town is an ever-green tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

The fox knows many shifts, the cat only one great one, viz., to run up a tree. [ Proverb ]

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. [ Saadi ]

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. [ Jesus ]

Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth. [ Halifax ]

That forbidden tree, whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe. [ Milton ]

Like some tall tree, the monster of the wood, o'ershading all that under him would grow. [ Dryden ]

The heart is like the tree that gives balm for the wounds of man, only when the iron has wounded it. [ Chateaubriand ]

Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. [ Buddha ]

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree. [ Rutherford ]

It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. [ Ruskin ]

Woe for my vine-clad home, that it should ever be so dark to me, with its bright threshold and its whispering tree! [ N. P. Willis ]

Mystic, deep as the world's centre, are the roots a man has struck into his native soil; no tree that grows is rooted so. [ Carlyle ]

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness. [ Hamerton ]

The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression: the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain: for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. [ Bancroft ]

We can take up no scheme, however wild and impracticable, but it will strike off some flower or fruit from the tree of knowledge. [ Ward Beecher ]

When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. [ Carlyle ]

It was the nightingale, and not the lark, that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. [ William Shakespeare ]

The tree of the world hath its poisons, but beareth two fruits of exquisite flavor, the nectar of poetry and the society of noble men. [ Hitopadesa ]

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. [ Barrow ]

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, - they have torn me, and I bleed: I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed. [ Byron ]

When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves. [ Holmes ]

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose [ James A. Garfield ]

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem, as you may see a grafted fruit-tree spreading over the stock which cannot keep pace with its evolutions. [ Holmes ]

Too bad you can't just grab a tree by the very tiptop and bend it clear over the ground and then let her fly, because I bet you'd be amazed at all the stuff that comes flying out. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots. [ Hawthorne ]

Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather. [ Shakespeare ]

The truly great and good in affliction bear a countenance more princely than they are wont, for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. [ S. P. Sidney ]

Most women spend their lives in robbing the old tree from which Eve plucked the first fruit. And such is the attraction of this fruit, that the most honest woman is not content to die without having tasted it. [ O. Feuillet ]

Sir Anthony Absolute, two or three years before Evelina appeared, spoke the sense of the great body of sober fathers and husbands when he pronounced the circulating library an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Macaulay ]

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers, and the sharpest thorns; as the heavens are sometimes overcast — alternately tempestuous and serene — so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasures and with pains. [ Burton ]

Joy wholly from without, is false, precarious, and short. From without it may be gathered; but, like gathered flowers, though fair, and sweet for a season, it must soon wither, and become offensive. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet and fair, it is lasting; and, I must add, immortal. [ Young ]

The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. [ Ruskin ]

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go. to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch. [ Pascal ]

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]

tree in Scrabble®

The word tree is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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tree in Words With Friends™

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 4

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Word Growth involving tree

Shorter words in tree

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Longer words containing tree

axletree axletrees

boxtree boxtrees

cottontree cottontrees

entree entrees

familytree familytrees

gauntree gauntrees

gawntree gawntrees

grapetree grapetrees

gumtree gumtrees

plumtree plumtrees

retree retreed

retree retreeing

retree retrees

saddletree saddletrees

shoetree shoetrees

sloetree sloetrees

street backstreet backstreets

street onstreet

street sidestreet sidestreets

street streetcar streetcars

street streetfight streetfighter streetfighters

street streetfight streetfighting

street streetfight streetfights

street streetful

street streetkeeper streetkeepers

street streetkeeping

street streetlamp streetlamps

street streetless

street streetlevel

street streetlight streetlighting

street streetlight streetlights

street streetproofing

street streets backstreets

street streets sidestreets

street streets streetscape streetscapes

street streets streetsmart streetsmarts

street streetwalk streetwalked

street streetwalk streetwalker streetwalkers

street streetwalk streetwalking

street streetwalk streetwalks

street streetwise

subtree subtrees

treebeard

treebine treebines

treed retreed

treefish treefishes

treefrog treefrogs

treeful

treehopper treehoppers

treehouse treehouses

treeing retreeing

treelawn treelawns

treeless treelessness

treelet treelets

treelike

treeline treelined

treeline treelines

treemaker treemakers

treemaking

treenail treenails

treerings

trees axletrees

trees boxtrees

trees cottontrees

trees entrees

trees familytrees

trees gauntrees

trees gawntrees

trees grapetrees

trees gumtrees

trees plumtrees

trees retrees

trees saddletrees

trees shoetrees

trees sloetrees

trees subtrees

trees treesapper treesappers

trees treescape treescapes

trees treeshaped

trees treestone treestones

trees whiffletrees

trees whippletrees

trees whiptrees

treetop treetops

treetrunk treetrunks

treeward treewards

whiffletree whiffletrees

whippletree whippletrees

yestreen yestreens