Boissiere is an anglicised form of the French name Boissière, which is related to the French word ''bois'', meaning ''wood''. It is part of a number of place names and is a common family name.

Places

Boissières, Gard Boissières (; oc, Boissièira) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. Population See also *Communes of the Gard department This is a list of the 351 communes of the Gard department of France. The communes cooperate i ...

, in the Gard ''département'' of France * Boissières, Lot, in the Lot ''département'' of France * Boissière (Paris Métro) is the name of a Metro station in Paris *''La Grande Boissière'' is the name of one of the campuses of the International School of Geneva * Boissiere Village is a village in

Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...

People

Jean-Baptiste Boissière Jean-Baptiste-Prudence Boissière (1806–1885) was a French lexicographer born in Valognes, Manche, France. He was the editor of the '' Dictionnaire analogique de la langue française'' (''Analogical dictionary of French''), published by Larouss ...

, a 19th-century French lexicographer *

Jean Galtier-Boissière Jean Galtier-Boissière (26 December 1891, Paris – 22 January 1966, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a writer, polemist, and journalist from Paris, France. He founded ''Le Crapouillot'' and wrote for ''Le Canard enchaîné''. Bibliography * ''Croquis ...

, a French writer and journalist who wrote for the ''Canard enchaîné'' * Ralph de Boissière, a Trinidadian and Tobagonian novelist

Other

* ''Boissière'' (film), a 1937 French film directed by Fernand Rivers