meadow
Meaning
- A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
- Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
Synonyms
grazing land
pasture land
pasture ground
grass-land
mountain pasture
open field
pelouse
pasture field
small field
open area
livestock farm
grass land
grassy area
grassy plain
greenland
grassland for grazing
rice field
grassplot
Wiesen
arable land
Frequency
Hyphenated as
mead‧ow
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɛd.əʊ/
Etymology
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 metere, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “reaping”). More at mow.
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