lawn

Meaning

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.

Concepts

lawn

meadow

turf

grass

sod

yard

grassland

field

green

sward

pasture

courtyard

ground

grass-plot

cambric

court

garden

grassplot

verdure

grass plot

playground

pitch

play ground

open space

patio

plaza

park

plot

terrace

batiste

glade

grassy place

rush

lea

garden patch

greenery

viridity

vine

week

green grass

greensward

enclosure

lot

backyard

plain

prairie

small ground

scalp

weed

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɔːn/

Etymology

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.