Sherwood Forest

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɝwʊd ˈfɔɹɪst/ (see forest for other pronunciations of the second word)
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɜːwʊd ˈfɒɹɪst/

Proper noun

Sherwood Forest

1. A country park in Nottinghamshire, England.
2. (military, slang) The banks of Polaris missile tubes on a submarine.
   • 1964, Adventure in Partnership: The Story of Polaris, page 34:

     Here crewmen are standing by in "Sherwood Forest" — as the missile compartment is named […]

   • 1966, Flight International, volume 90, page 36:

     Fifteen other launcher tubes — Polaris submarines have 16 in the midships "Sherwood Forest" compartment […]

Translations

country park

• Finnish: Sherwoodin metsä
• French: forêt de Sherwood f
• Georgian: შერვუდის ტყე (šervudis ṭq̇e)
• Icelandic: Skírisskógur m
• Japanese: シャーウッドの森 (Shāuddo no Mori)
• Russian: Шервудский лес (Šervudskij les)
• Swedish: Sherwoodskogen c