lawn

English

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Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /lɔːn/
• (US) IPA: /lɔn/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /lɑn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Etymology 1

Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”) of Germanic or Gaulish origin, akin to Breton lann (“heath”)"; Old Norse & Old English land

Noun

lawn (countable and uncountable; plural lawns)

1. An open space between woods.
2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
3. (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

Derived terms

• lawn mower
• lawned

Translations

open space between woods

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 草地 (cmn) (cǎodì), 草坪 (cmn) (cǎopíng)

• Finnish: ruohikko (fi)
• French: clairière (fr)
• Indonesian: halaman rumput (id)

• Macedonian: ледина (mk) (lédina) f
• Portuguese: clareira (pt) f
• Russian: опушка (ru) (opúška) f, поляна (ru) (poljána) f, лужайка (ru) (lužájka) f
• Spanish: claro (es) m
• Swahili: ua (sw)

ground covered with grass

• Bulgarian: поляна (bg) (poljána) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 草地 (cmn) (cǎodì), 草坪 (cmn) (cǎopíng), 綠茵 (cmn), 绿茵 (cmn) (lǜyīn)

• Czech: trávník (cs) m
• Dutch: gazon (nl) n, grasperk (nl) n
• Esperanto: gazono (eo)
• Finnish: nurmikko (fi), pihanurmikko (fi)
• French: gazon (fr) m, pelouse (fr) f
• German: Rasen (de) m, Wiese (de) f
• Hebrew: דֶּשֶׁא (he) (déshe)
• Hungarian: gyep (hu), pázsit (hu)
• Ido: gazoneyo (io)
• Irish: plásóg (ga) f, plásóg fhéir (ga) f, léana (ga) m, báinseach (ga) f, faiche (ga) f
• Italian: prato (it) m

• Japanese: 芝生 (ja) (しばふ, shibafu)
• Jèrriais: partèrre d'hèrbe m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چیمه‌ن (ku)

• Macedonian: тревник (mk) (trévnik) m
• Norwegian: gressplen (no) m, plen (no) m
• Polish: trawnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: grama (pt) f
• Romanian: peluză (ro) f
• Russian: газон (ru) (gazón) m, лужайка (ru) (lužájka) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: травњак (sh) m

  Roman: travnjak (sh) m

• Spanish: césped (es) m, grama (es) f (Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela), pasto (es) m (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay), zacate (es) m (Costa Rica, Mexico)
• Swahili: ua (sw)
• Swedish: gräsmatta (sv) c
• Vietnamese: bãi cỏ (vi)
• Volapük: yebafeled (vo)

Etymology 2

Apparently from Laon, a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.

Noun

lawn (countable and uncountable; plural lawns)

1. (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

     The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 144:

     He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.

2. (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
3. (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
   • 1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie:

     […] she was as the wild yoncopin to the calla lily. Marjie knew how to dress. To-day, shaded by the buggy-top, in her dainty light blue lawn, with the soft pink of her cheeks and her clear white brow and throat, she was a most delicious thing […]

Translations

a type of linen or cotton fabric

• Finnish: musliini (fi)
• Irish: péirlín (ga) m

• Japanese: ローン (ja) (rōn), 寒冷紗 (ja) (かんれいしゃ, kanreisha)

pieces of such fabric

• Finnish: musliini (fi)

an item of clothing made from the fabric

• Finnish: musliinivaate (fi)

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Translations to be checked

• Macedonian: батист (mk) (batíst) m

• Swahili: ua (sw)

References

• lawn in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• WLAN