meadow
11Meadow — For other uses, see Meadow (disambiguation). Meadow in full flower near Grindelwald in the Swiss Alps. Such meadows even on steep hillsides are traditionally hand mown with hay scythes in late summer A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by… …
12Meadow — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Meadow peut faire référence à : Toponymes East Meadow, ville du Comté de Nassau (New York) situé sur le Long Island dans l État du New York Meadow… …
13meadow — n. 1 a piece of grassland, esp. one used for hay. 2 a piece of low well watered ground, esp. near a river. Phrases and idioms: meadow brown a common brown butterfly, Maniola jurtina. meadow grass a perennial creeping grass, Poa pratensis. meadow… …
14meadow — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. mead, lea, pasture, mowing. See land. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. grass, pasture, mead, lea, mountain meadow, upland pasture, alp, meadow land, bottom land, bottoms, grassland, pasturage, salt marsh,… …
15meadow — [OE] Etymologically, meadow means ‘mowed land’. It goes back ultimately to an Indo European *mētwá, a derivative of the base *mē ‘mow’ (source of English mow [OE]). In prehistoric Germanic this became *mǣdwō (whence German matte ‘meadow’), which… …
16meadow — [OE] Etymologically, meadow means ‘mowed land’. It goes back ultimately to an Indo European *mētwá, a derivative of the base *mē ‘mow’ (source of English mow [OE]). In prehistoric Germanic this became *mǣdwō (whence German matte ‘meadow’), which… …
17meadow — n. in a meadow * * * [ medəʊ] in a meadow …
18meadow — UK [ˈmedəʊ] / US [ˈmedoʊ] noun [countable] Word forms meadow : singular meadow plural meadows a field where grass and wild flowers grow …
19Meadow — A vital piece of land for any farming community, being kept in grass to provide hay when mown. It could be more valuable than arable; although this may be due to the increasing shortage of land in the 12c and 13c as population expanded, there can …
20meadow — noun Meadow is used after these nouns: ↑hay, ↑mountain …
