Lawn

Quick meaning: Lawn is a noun meaning Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

Meaning

Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

More Meanings

1. (England, historical or regional) An open space between woods.
2. (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
3. (transitive) To furnish with a lawn.
4. (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
5. (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
6. (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton fabric tightly woven of fine threads. (Traditionally expensive and luxurious in centuries past.)

Example Sentences

The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.

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.

By opening all the arches of the several apartments […], by lawning the area within, and by a judicious use of ivy where any blank spaces require to be broken, or any deformities concealed, this might be made a beautiful and singular scene; […]

[…] she was as the wild yoncopin to the calla lily. Marjie knew how to dress. To-day, shaded by the buggy-top, in her dainty light blue lawn, with the soft pink of her cheeks and her clear white brow and throat, she was a most delicious thing […]

Word Forms

• lawns
• lawning
• lawned

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include field, grassland, mower, sod, turf, gardening.

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