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Lawn vs Meadow - What's the difference?

lawn | meadow |

Meadow is a synonym of lawn.



As nouns the difference between lawn and meadow

is that lawn is an open space between woods while meadow is a field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.

As proper nouns the difference between lawn and meadow

is that lawn is a town in Newfoundland and Labrador while Meadow is a town in Texas.

lawn

English

(wikipedia lawn)

Etymology 1

Early Modern English "; Old Norse & Old English land

Noun

  • An open space between woods.
  • Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
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  • (lb) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
    • Derived terms
    * lawn mower * lawned

    Etymology 2

    Apparently from (Laon) , a town in France known for its linen manufacturing.

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), Dracula :
    • The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
  • * 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 144:
    • He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.
  • (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
  • (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
  • * 1910 , Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie :

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    meadow

    English

    (wikipedia meadow)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.
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  • Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
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  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Nancy Langston
    • , volume=101, issue=1, page=59, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Fraught History of a Watery World , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

    Derived terms

    * catch-meadow * meadow barley * meadow beauty * meadow bright * meadow buttercup * meadow clary * meadow clover * meadow cranesbill * meadow cress * meadow dermatitis * meadow fern * meadow fescue * meadow foxtail * meadow frog * meadow golden * meadow grass * meadow horsetail * meadow jumping mouse * meadow leek * meadow lily * meadow mouse * meadow muffin * meadow mushroom * meadow nematode * meadow ore * meadow oxeye * meadow pea * meadow pink * meadow pipit * meadow rue * meadow saffron * meadow salsify * meadow saxifrage * meadow spikemoss * meadow spittlebug * meadow starling * meadow thistle * meadow violet * meadow vole * meadowage * meadowed * meadower * meadowing * meadowish * meadowland * meadowlark * meadowless * meadowsweet * meadow-wink * meadowy * queen of the meadow * water meadow