meadow

Значение (Английский)

Noun

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.

Verb

To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.

Синонимы

grassland

pasture

field

lawn

prairie

grazing land

pastureland

lea

plain

range

pasture land

pampas

mead

glade

farm

alpine

earth

garden

hayfield

land

pasturage

pasture ground

turf

valley

grass-land

mountain pasture

open field

meadowland

moor

mowing

nourishment

pampa

fodder

pelouse

aliment

pasture field

small field

fare

dell

plains

clearing

bent

savanna

smooth

sod

steppe

sward

open area

livestock farm

grass land

Переводы

pré

Wiese

prado

prato

pradera

weide

prado

prairie

wei

weiland

λιβάδι

Weide

çayır

beemd

pâturage

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈmɛd.əʊ/

Этимология (Английский)

Унаследовано от среднеанглийский: medowe

Унаследовано от староанглийский: mǣdwe

Родственно западнофризский: miede

Родственно валлийский: medi

Родственно латинский: metere

Родственно древнегреческий: ἄμητος

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 metō, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “reaping”). More at mow.