Meadow

Quick meaning: Meadow is a noun meaning Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

Meaning

Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

More Meanings

1. To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.
2. A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.

Example Sentences

alpine meadows

the salt meadows near Newark Bay

Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.

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.

Word Forms

• meadows
• meadowing
• meadowed

Synonyms for meadow

Depending on context, synonyms include mead, lea, ley, leigh.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lea, grassland, field, prairie, pasture, sweet.

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