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# cedar

«cedar» in Mova's school dictionary: **A tall evergreen tree with needle-like leaves and cones…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cedar, cedars; cedar — the wood, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A tall evergreen tree with needle-like leaves and cones, such as the cedar of Lebanon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/#m1)

2) The pleasant-smelling, reddish wood of cedar trees, used for chests, fences and pencils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/#m2)

3) Some other trees with sweet-smelling wood are also called cedars (for example western red cedar in Canada). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons cedars are conifers. In the Bible the cedars of Lebanon are symbols of strength and grandeur; Solomon's temple was built with cedar wood. Cedar appears on the flag of Lebanon. In everyday life cedar wood keeps moths away from clothes.

### examples

- A huge cedar stands in the middle of the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/#x1)
- The cedar of Lebanon is on Lebanon's flag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/#x2)
- Grandma keeps her blankets in a cedar chest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/#x3)
- Cedar wood smells lovely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/#x4)
- King Solomon built the temple with cedar, the Bible says. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/#x5)
- The fence is made of red cedar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/#x6)
- At last he came to one of the largest forests in all the world, composed entirely of cedars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/#x7)

### note

Say «SEE-dur». Do not confuse with «cider» (an apple drink) or «seeder». Countable for trees, uncountable for the wood.

### In the corpora

- [And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.418/)
- [So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of cypress according to all his desire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.180/)
- [So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.197/)
- [And the cedar on the house within was carved with knops and open flowers; all was cedar; there was no stone seen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.206/)
- [And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.224/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cedar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cedar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.