meadow

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

Verb

To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.

Concepts

pré

prairie

pâturage

pâture

herbage

alpage

pelouse

plaine

terrain

gazon

champ

paturage

pampa

savanne

champs de foin

Synonymes

grassland

pasture

field

lawn

prairie

grazing land

pastureland

lea

plain

range

pasture land

pampas

mead

glade

farm

alpine

earth

garden

hayfield

land

pasturage

pasture ground

turf

valley

grass-land

mountain pasture

open field

meadowland

moor

mowing

nourishment

pampa

fodder

pelouse

aliment

pasture field

small field

fare

dell

plains

clearing

bent

savanna

smooth

sod

steppe

sward

open area

livestock farm

grass land

Traductions

Wiese

prado

prato

pradera

weide

prado

wei

λιβάδι

weiland

Weide

çayır

beemd

prateria

grasland

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈmɛd.əʊ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: medowe

Hérité de ancien anglais: mǣdwe

Appartenant à frison occidental: miede

Appartenant à gallois: medi

Appartenant à latin: metere

Appartenant à grec ancien: ἄμητος

In summary

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, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-.
See also West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”); also Welsh medi, Latin metō, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “reaping”). More at mow.