meadow

Meaning

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.

Concepts

meadow

grassland

pasture

field

lawn

prairie

grazing land

pastureland

lea

plain

pasture land

pampas

range

glade

mead

farm

pasturage

hayfield

grass-land

garden

valley

turf

pasture ground

alpine

mountain pasture

open field

earth

land

aliment

fare

fodder

food

forage

nourishment

rice field

plains

dell

grass

haymaking

mowing

clearing

grassplot

bent

smooth

grass land

livestock farm

pasture field

grassland for grazing

sward

Wiesen

pelouse

small field

savanna

steppe

vacant lot

grassy area

open area

ley

meadowland

moor

sod

greenland

grassy plain

arable land

ground

leigh

meader

pampa

Hyphenated as

mead‧ow

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmɛd.əʊ/

Etymology

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.