Synonyms for timber
ˈtɪm bərtim·ber

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1. timbernoun

   Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

   Synonyms:
   timberland, forest

2. timbernoun

   Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

   Synonyms:
   wood, lumber

3. timbernoun

   Synonyms:
   rafter, beam

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 3 votes

1. lumber, timbernoun

   the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

   Synonyms:
   woodland, tone, quality, timbre, timberland, lumber, forest, baseball bat

2. timbernoun

   a beam made of wood

   Synonyms:
   woodland, lumber, tone, quality, timbre, forest, timberland

3. timbernoun

   a post made of wood

   Synonyms:
   woodland, lumber, tone, quality, timbre, forest, timberland

4. forest, woodland, timberland, timbernoun

   land that is covered with trees and shrubs

   Synonyms:
   woodland, tone, quality, wood, timbre, timberland, woods, lumber, forest

5. timbre, timber, quality, tonenoun

   (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)

   "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"

   Synonyms:
   note, shade, smell, tone of voice, caliber, tonicity, lineament, quality, feel, feeling, flavor, look, tint, lumber, tonus, flavour, spirit, whole step, tincture, timberland, pure tone, step, forest, whole tone, character, tone, woodland, timbre, calibre, musical note

Matched Categories

1. • Beam
   • Biome
   • Building Material
   • Land
   • Music
   • Post
   • Sound Property

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. timbernoun

   Synonyms:
   wood (for building)

2. timbernoun

   Synonyms:
   beam, stick, squared timber

3. timbernoun

   Synonyms:
   rib (of a ship's frame)

4. timbernoun

   Synonyms:
   [western, U. S.] woods, forest

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1. List of paraphrases for "timber":

   wood, lumber, wooden, madeira, timmer, bois, woods, drink, madera, hout, forest, firewood, forestry, woody, stumpage

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How to use timber in a sentence?

1. Jonathan Reiner:

   The biggest issue is about 55 million adults have chosen not to get vaccinated, and that is the giant pile of dried timber for this relentless fire.

2. Swe Ba:

   We have been reducing timber extraction, and now we have decided to stop logging completely, this measure will cover teak and other hardwoods all across the country.

3. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

4. Govind Bisht:

   These trees, such as oak, rhododendron and the kharsu (an endemic species), are primarily responsible for groundwater recharging, but they are fast vanishing, being cut, whether for timber or for so-called ‘developmental works’ such as roads or tourist resorts.

5. Don Shomette:

   Within a year we had a million men building ships, cutting the timber, mining the iron for them, building the machinery for them. At one point we became the greatest shipbuilding nation in the history of the world, we had to create from nothing a shipping industry that was going to build a thousand wooden ships in 18 months -- normally it would take a year and a half to build a wooden steam ship.