noun
1 [mass noun] the hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub, used for fuel or timber:
a block of wood
[count noun]:
best quality woods were used for joinery
(the wood) wooden barrels used for storing alcoholic drinks:
wines from the wood
[count noun] a golf club with a wooden or other head that is relatively broad from face to back (often with a numeral indicating the degree to which the face is angled to loft the ball):
[in combination]:
he hit the ball with a three-wood
[count noun] Golf a shot made with a wood:
he’s hitting a wood for his second shot
another term for bowl2 (sense 1 of the noun).
2 (also woods) an area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees:
a thick hedge divided the wood from the field
a long walk in the woods