lawn

Significado (inglés)

Noun

1. An open space between woods.
2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
3. An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

Verb

To furnish with a lawn.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/lɔːn/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.