English Dictionary

thicket

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈθɪkɪt/

名詞

比喩的用法

A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse. / (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.

日本語の意味

密集した低木や小さな木が集まって生えている区域。藪、茂みとも訳される。 / （比喩的に）様々なものが密集して存在する状態。

A fox darted through the thicket to reach the river before sunrise.

キツネは夜明け前に川に着くため、藪を駆け抜けた。

意味（1）

A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

Suddenly from a lumpy tussock of old grass some twenty yards in front of them, with black-tipped ears erect and long hinder limbs throwing it forward, started a hare. It bolted for a thicket of alders.

意味（2）

(figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.

He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.

意味（3）

(computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.

thickets （ plural ）