meadow
See also: Meadow
English
Etymology
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From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō (compare West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”) (compare Welsh medi, Latin metere, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “reaping”)), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. More at mow.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mead‧ow
Noun
meadow (plural meadows)
- A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
- But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, […].
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict:
- […] 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, in Crime out of Mind:
- 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.
- Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
- the salt meadows near Newark Bay
- 2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in 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.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- catch-meadow
- meadowage
- meadow barley
- meadow beauty
- meadow bright
- meadow buttercup
- meadow clary
- meadow clover
- meadow cranesbill
- meadow cress
- meadow dermatitis
- meadowed
- meadower
- meadow fern
- meadow fescue
- meadow foxtail
- meadow frog
- meadow golden
- meadow grass
- Meadowhall
- meadow horsetail
- meadowing
- meadowish
- meadow jumping mouse
- meadowland
- meadowlark
- meadow leek
- meadowless
- meadow lily
- meadow mouse
- meadow muffin
- meadow mushroom
- meadow nematode
- meadow ore
- meadow oxeye
- meadow pea
- meadow pink
- meadow pipit
- meadow rue
- meadow saffron
- meadow salsify
- meadow saxifrage
- meadow spikemoss
- meadow spittlebug
- meadow starling
- meadowsweet
- meadow thistle
- meadow violet
- meadow vole
- meadow-wink
- meadowy
- queen of the meadow
- water meadow
Translations
field or pasture
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