meadow
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō (compare West Frisian miede, Dutch dialect made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- ‘to mow, reap’ (compare Welsh medi, Latin metere, Ancient Greek ámētos (“reaping”)), englargement of *h₂meh₁-. More at mow.
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /ˈmɛdəʊ/, X-SAMPA: /"mEd@U/
- (US) IPA: /ˈmɛdoʊ/, X-SAMPA: /"mEdoU/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛdəʊ
Noun [edit]
meadow (plural meadows)
- A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
- […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […]
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, Crime out of Mind[2]:
- Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
- Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
- 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:
- European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
- the salt meadows near Newark Bay
- 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:
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Translations [edit]
field or pasture
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