lawn

See also: Lawn

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /lɔːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /lɔn/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /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, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.

Noun

lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)

1. (England, historical or regional) An open space between woods.
2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.

3. (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

Derived terms

• Chapel Lawn
• fold like a lawn chair
• gazelle on the lawn
• get off my lawn
• get-off-my-lawn
• lawn billiards
• lawn-bowl
• lawn bowling
• lawn bowls
• lawn bubble
• lawn chair
• lawn-chair
• lawn daisy
• lawn dart
• lawn dart effect
• lawned
• lawn food
• lawn gnome
• lawn jart
• lawn job
• lawn jockey
• lawn mixture
• lawnmower
• lawn party
• lawn prawn
• lawn rake
• lawn shrimp
• lawn sleeves
• lawn-sleeves
• lawn tennis
• moss lawn
• tree lawn
• widow's lawn

 

Translations

open space between woods

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: поляна (bg) f (poljana)
• Chinese:

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

• Esperanto: maldensejo, senarbejo
• Finnish: aukea (fi), metsäaukea, ruohikko (fi), niitty (fi)
• French: clairière (fr)
• German: Lichtung (de) f
• Indonesian: halaman rumput
• Italian: radura (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 숲 속 공터 (sup sok gongteo)
• Macedonian: ледина f (ledina)
• Portuguese: clareira (pt) f
• Russian: опу́шка (ru) f (opúška), поля́на (ru) f (poljána), лужа́йка (ru) f (lužájka)
• Spanish: claro (es) m
• Swahili: ua (sw)
• Ukrainian: галя́вина (uk) f (haljávyna)

ground covered with grass

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: սիզամարգ (hy) (sizamarg), գազոն (hy) (gazon)
• Azerbaijani: qazon
• Basque: belardi
• Belarusian: газо́н m (hazón), лужо́к m (lužók)
• Bulgarian: поля́на (bg) f (poljána)
• Catalan: gespa (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: trávník (cs) m
• Danish: græsplæne (da) c, plæne c
• Dutch: gazon (nl) n, grasperk (nl) n
• Esperanto: gazono, razeno
• Finnish: nurmi (fi), nurmikko (fi), (yard) pihanurmikko
• French: gazon (fr) m, pelouse (fr) f
• Georgian: გაზონი (ka) (gazoni)
• German: Rasen (de) m; (when large also) Wiese (de) f
• Greek: γκαζόν (el) n (gkazón)
• Hebrew: דֶּשֶׁא (he) (déshe)
• Hungarian: gyep (hu), pázsit (hu)
• Icelandic: grasflöt (is) f, grasblettur m
• Ido: gazoneyo (io)
• Ingrian: nurmi
• Irish: plásóg f, plásóg fhéir f, léana m, báinseach f, faiche f
• Italian: prato (it) m
• Japanese: 芝生 (ja) (しばふ, shibafu)
• Kazakh: газон (gazon), көгал (kögal)
• Korean: 풀밭 (pulbat), 초지 (choji), 잔디밭 (ko) (jandibat)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چیمەن (çîmen)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: virectum n
• Luxembourgish: Wues (lb) m
• Macedonian: тревник m (trevnik)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зүлэг (mn) (züleg)

  Mongolian: ᠵᠦᠯᠭᠡ (ǰülge)

• Norman: partèrre d'hèrbe m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gressplen m, plen (no) m

  Nynorsk: grasplen m, plen m

• Ottoman Turkish: چیم (çim)
• Polish: trawnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: gramado m (Brazil), relvado (pt) m (Portugal)
• Quechua: q'umir pampa
• Romanian: peluză (ro) f
• Russian: газо́н (ru) m (gazón), лужа́йка (ru) f (lužájka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: травњак m

  Roman: travnjak (sh) m

• Slovak: trávnik m
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: trawnik 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
• Thai: สนาม (th) (sà-nǎam), สนามหญ้า
• Ukrainian: газо́н m (hazón), лужо́к m (lužók)
• Uyghur: چىمەنلىك (chimenlik)
• Uzbek: gazon (uz)
• Vietnamese: bãi cỏ (vi)
• Volapük: yebafeled
• Welsh: lawnt (cy) f

Verb

lawn (third-person singular simple present lawns, present participle lawning, simple past and past participle lawned)

1. (transitive) To furnish with a lawn.
   • 1827, An Historical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Account of Kirkstall Abbey, page 170:

     By opening all the arches of the several apartments […] , by lawning the area within, and by a judicious use of ivy where any blank spaces require to be broken, or any deformities concealed, this might be made a beautiful and singular scene; […]

Etymology 2

Apparently from Laon, a French town known for its linen manufacturing, from Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, a Celtic name cognate with Lugdunum.

Noun

lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)

1. (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 107–108:

     Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

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

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: musliini (fi)
• Irish: péirlín m
• Japanese: ローン (ja) (rōn), 寒冷紗 (かんれいしゃ, kanreisha)
• Korean: 론 (ko) (ron), 한랭사 (hallaengsa)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: lliain main m, bliant m

pieces of such fabric

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: musliini (fi)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

an item of clothing made from the fabric

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: musliinivaate
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} бати́ст m (batíst)
• Swahili: ^{(please verify)} ua (sw)

References

• “lawn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• WLAN, nawl

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lau̯n/

Adjective

lawn

1. Soft mutation of llawn.

Adverb

lawn

1. Soft mutation of llawn.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
llawn	lawn	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.