laund

English

Alternative forms

• laune

Etymology

From Middle English launde, from Old French launde (“wooded area”) (French lande), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Doublet of land.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔːnd/

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  • Rhymes: -ɔːnd

Noun

laund (plural launds)

1. (archaic) A grassy plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; a glade.
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     Through this laund anon the deer will come.

   • 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers:

     About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones,

   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:

     Odon was known to be resting, after completing his motion picture, at the villa of an old American friend, Joseph S. Lavender (the name hails from the laundry, not from the laund).

Derived terms

• lawn

Translations

grassy plain or pasture

• Russian: поля́на (ru) (poljána), лужа́йка (ru) (lužájka)

Anagrams

• Lunda, dunal, ulnad

Middle English

Noun

laund

1. Alternative form of lond

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English lond.

Noun

laund (plural launds)

1. land