forest ranger

English

Noun

forest ranger (plural forest rangers)

1. A person entrusted with protecting and preserving public forested land.

Translations

a person entrusted with protecting and preserving public forested land

• Afrikaans: boswagter (af)
• Armenian: անտառապահ (hy) (antaṙapah)
• Azerbaijani: meşəbəyi
• Catalan: guardabosc (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 護林員 / 护林员 (hùlínyuán)

• Czech: revírník m, hajný (cs) m
• Danish: skovrider c
• Dutch: boswachter (nl) m
• Finnish: metsänvartija (fi)
• French: garde forestier (fr) m
• German: Forstaufseher m, Förster (de) m
• Greek: δασονόμος (el) m (dasonómos), δασοκόμος (el) m (dasokómos), δασοφύλακας (el) m (dasofýlakas)
• Hungarian: erdőőr (hu)
• Indonesian: jagawana (id), penjaga hutan
• Ingrian: metsävahti
• Italian: guardia forestale m
• Kyrgyz: токойчу (ky) (tokoycu)
• Polish: strażnik leśny m
• Portuguese: guarda florestal m or f, polícia florestal m or f (Madeira)
• Russian: лесни́чий (ru) m (lesníčij), лесни́к (ru) m (lesník)
• Scottish Gaelic: maor-coille m
• Spanish: guardabosque (es) m
• Swedish: skogvaktare (sv) c
• West Frisian: boskwachter c
• Yoruba: aṣọ́gbó

See also

• park ranger
• forester

Further reading

• “forest ranger”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “forest ranger”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “forest ranger”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.