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Forester vs Lumberjack - What's the difference?

forester | lumberjack |

As nouns the difference between forester and lumberjack

is that forester is a person who practices forestry while lumberjack is a person whose work is to fell trees.

As a proper noun Forester

is {{surname|lang=en|A=An occupational|from=occupations}} for someone who lived, or worked in a forest.

As a verb lumberjack is

to work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.

forester

English

Noun

(wikipedia forester) (en noun)
  • A person who practices forestry.
  • (obsolete, or, colloquial) A person who lives in a forest.
  • A moth in the family Zygaenidae.

    • Anagrams

    * fosterer * reforest

    lumberjack

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia lumberjack) (en noun)
  • a person whose work is to fell trees.
  • a lumberjacket.

    • Synonyms

    * (a person who fells trees) faller, feller, logger, lumberman

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 28, author=John Branch, title=Going Way of Old Growth, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer. }}

    See also

    * lumbermill