meadow

English

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Etymology

Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō (cf. West Frisian miede, Dutch dialect made, German dialect Matte ‘mountain pasture’), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- ‘to mow, reap’ (cf. Welsh medi, Latin metere, Ancient Greek ámētos ‘reaping’), englargement of *h₂meh₁-. More at mow.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmɛdəʊ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdəʊ

Noun

meadow (plural meadows)

1. 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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Translations

field or pasture

Albanian: livadhe (sq) Arabic: مرج (ar) (marj) m. Armenian: մարգագետին (hy) (margagetin) Bosnian: livada (bs) f. Bulgarian: ливада (bg) (liváda) f. Catalan: prat (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 草地 (zh) (cǎodì) Czech: louka (cs) f. Danish: eng (da) Dutch: weide (nl) Esperanto: herbejo (eo) Finnish: niitty, heinämaa French: pré (fr) m. German: Wiese (de) f., Weide (de) f. Greek: Ancient: λιβάδιον Modern: λιβάδι Hebrew: אחו (he) (('akhu)) m. Hungarian: rét (hu), kaszáló (hu)

Icelandic: engi (is) n., grund (is) f., grasflöt (is) f. Italian: prato (it) m. Japanese: 草原 (ja) (くさはら, kusahara) Latin: livadus (la) Latvian: pļava (lv) f. Macedonian: ливада f. Old English: mǣd (ang) f. Polish: łąka (pl) f. Portuguese: prado (pt) m. Romanian: livadă (ro) Russian: луг (ru) (lug) m. Scottish Gaelic: lèana (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: ливада f., пољана f. Roman: livada f., poljana f. Slovene: travnik (sl) m. Spanish: prado (es) m., vega (es) f. Swedish: äng (sv) c.