Greensward

Quick meaning: Greensward is a noun meaning A tract of land that is green with grass.

Meaning

A tract of land that is green with grass.

Example Sentences

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He followed much of Olmsted and Vaux's plan, creating features such as South Open Ground, a vast greensward created by thinning out native oaks and shaping tons of soil and animal waste into “pleasing slopes and graceful undulations.”

Ventagladia is also a Latin form of the name Vindogladia, and would, as it seems to me, be a good name for the broad reach of greensward below, above and south of Woodyates' Inn. Gwent gledd would mean the open or unenclosed land of greensward.

To be plunged straight into the old nut and bolt shop, as was the writer's experience, during a spell of cloudless June Weather was a real hardship, and the mind kept flitting back to the glint of blue water under willow trees and the click of ball on bat on a quiet spacious greensward.

Word Forms

• greenswards
• green-sward
• green sward

Synonyms for greensward

Depending on context, synonyms include sod, turf, sward.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sod, sward, turf, green, grass, greenscape.

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