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lawn¹ Definition

lawn (lôn)

noun

  1. land covered with grass kept closely mowed, esp. in front of or around a house
  2. the grass itself to mow the lawn
  3. Archaic an open space in a forest; glade

Etymology: ME launde < OFr, heath < Bret lann, heath, country: see land

Related Forms:

  • lawny lawn′y adjective
lawn² Definition

lawn (lôn)

noun

a fine, sheer cloth of linen or cotton, used for blouses, curtains, etc.

Etymology: ME lawne, for laune lynen, Laon linen, after Laon, city in France, where made

Related Forms:

  • lawny lawn′y adjective
lawn Synonyms

lawn

n.

lawn Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • mow: Weed the garden, mow the lawn, empty the kitchen bucket!
  • manicure: It certainly is no formal, prissy garden - no clipped hedges, manicured lawns or " Keep Off The Grass " signs.
  • aerate: First of all we needed to aerate the lawn and we tested a variety of aerators.
  • scarify: Lawns and meadows In many colder areas, t his month is the last opportunity to scarify lawns.
  • tend: Two tall brick pillars just rose up from a long expanse of tended lawn behind the sidewalk.
  • overlook: Now we're having a late lunch on the patio of a country club, overlooking the lush green lawns of the golf course.

Preposition: with

  • flowerbed: To the front of the property is an extensive lawn with flowerbeds, bushes and shrubs, and full width patio area.

Adjective modifier

  • sloping: Grounds 3 acres with paved patios, steps to different areas, large sloping lawns, mature trees, shrubs, 2 landscaped fields.
  • sweeping: The main carriage drive was designed to pass through the existing woods, then reveal the house across the sweeping lawns.
  • immaculate: Its two swimming pools are flanked by immaculate lawns leading down to the beach.
  • lush: Now we're having a late lunch on the patio of a country club, overlooking the lush green lawns of the golf course.
  • verdant: PENSIONS REFORM 32 Political stage The grass is greener: Which politicians are standing upon the most verdant lawn of pensions future?

Modifies a noun

  • mower: For small areas, an ordinary hand lawn mower with the blades set high will do the job.
  • tractor: Lawn Tractors - Garden Tractors - Ride on Mowers Great new finance offer!
  • tennis: My brother and I are teaching each other lawn tennis.
  • rake: A spring-tine or lawn rake is a different tool altogether.
  • sprinkler: You'll need a reasonable amount of water pressure - for example sufficient to use a lawn sprinkler.
  • aerator: A small fertilizer spreader is handy but not essential. * Machinery - a scarifier, a lawn aerator, and a fertilizer spreader.

Noun used with modifier

  • croquet: Romantic gardens surround the house and feature a croquet lawn, tennis court and a secluded outdoor heated swimming pool.
  • chamomile: We tried bark chippings last year, and an area of ` chamomile lawn ' ( more chamomile ` patch ' ).
lawn Quotes

A sweet disorder in the dress 400 Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction† A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility: Do more bewitch me, than when Art Is too precise in every part.

—Herrick, Robert

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. It combines the best features of that primitive form of cricket known asTip-and-Run with those of lawn tennis, Puss-in-the-corner and Handel's Messiah.

—Shaw, George Bernard

LawnTennyson, gentleman poet.

—Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius

Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.

—Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, The moan of doves in immemorial elms, With murmuring of innumerable bees.

—Tennyson

How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.

—Updike,John Hoyer

'Tis from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

—Pope, Alexander

Like Rome, Nkongsamba was built on seven hills, but there all similarity ended. Set in undulating tropical rain forest, from the air it resembled nothing so much as a giant pool of crapulous vomit on somebody's expansive unmown lawn.

—Boyd,William Andrew Murray

   Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?

—Arnold, Matthew

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