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.

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

C2
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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