lawnmower

A lawn mowing machine

English

Alternative forms

• lawn mower

Etymology

lawn +‎ mower

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈlɑn.məʊ.əː/
• (US) IPA: /ˈlɑn.moʊ.ɝ/, X-SAMPA: /lAnmoU@`/

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Noun

lawnmower (plural lawnmowers)

1. Any of the electrical or mechanical machines used for cutting grass.
   • 1877, Queensland. Dept. of Public Instruction, Report of the Secretary for Public Instruction

     It is only a small school, but this year the committee has expended £105 in reforming the garden, painting the fences, making a tennis court and lawn, purchasing a lawnmower etc.

   • 1912, O. Henry, Rolling Stones

     here was an ordinary man out of the city directory that subscribes for magazines and pushes the lawnmower in his shirt-sleeves of evenings.

2. A person who landscapes and in particular mows lawns.

Hyponyms

• push mower, riding mower

Translations

machine

• Afrikaans: grassnyer (af)
• Czech: sekačka na trávu (cs) f
• Danish: græsslåmaskine (da) c, plæneklipper (da) c
• Estonian: muruniiduk (et)
• Finnish: ruohonleikkuri (fi)
• French: tondeuse à gazon (fr) f
• German: Rasenmäher (de) m
• Greek: χλοοκοπτική μηχανή (el) f (chlookoptikí michaní)
• Hungarian: fűnyíró (hu)
• Irish: buainteoir (ga) m, lomaire (ga) m
• Italian: tosaerba (it) m, falciatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 芝刈り機 (ja) (shibakariki)
• Lithuanian: vejapjovė (lt) f
• Macedonian: косилка (mk) (kósilka) f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gressklipper (nb) m

  Nynorsk: grasklippar (nn) m, grasklyppar (nn) m

• Polish: kosiarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cortador de grama (pt) m
• Russian: газонокосилка (ru) f (gazonokosilka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: косилица (sh) f

  Roman: kosilica (sh) f

• Spanish: cortacésped (es) f, cortahierba (es), cortapasto (es), cortador de césped (es) m, cortador de hierba (es) m, cortador de pasto (es) m
• Swedish: gräsklippare (sv) c
• Volapük: yebifodian (vo)

a person who landscapes and in particular mows lawns

• Irish: buainteoir (ga) m

• Russian: газонокосильщик (ru) m (gazonokosilʹščik)

See also

• Lawnmower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia