English Explanatory Dictionary

lawn

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
  2. An open space between woods.
  3. An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
verb
  1. To furnish with a lawn.
noun
  1. A type of thin linen or cotton fabric tightly woven of fine threads. (Traditionally expensive and luxurious in centuries past.)
  2. Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
  3. A piece of clothing made from lawn.
name
  1. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  2. An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States.
  3. A town in Texas, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.

Pronunciation

/lɔːn/ /lɔn/ /lɑn/ en-us-lawn.ogg /lɒn/

Word forms

lawn lawns lawning lawned

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.

Derived words

Chapel Lawn Fair Lawn fold like a lawn chair gazelle on the lawn get off my lawn get-off-my-lawn lawn base lawn billiards lawn bowl lawn-bowl lawn bowling lawn bowls lawn bubble lawncare lawn chair lawn-chair lawn daisy Lawndale lawn dart lawn dart effect lawned lawner lawn flamingo lawn food lawnful lawn gnome lawngrass lawn jart lawn job lawn jockey lawnless lawnlet lawnlike lawn mixture lawnmower lawn-mower lawnmowing lawn party lawn prawn lawn rake lawnscape lawn shrimp lawn-sleeves lawn sleeves lawn tennis lawny moss lawn Oak Lawn relawn Stalin's lawn tree lawn widow's lawn
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