# lawn
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /lɔːn/
* (US) IPA: /lɔn/
** (cot–caught merger) IPA: /lɑn/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔːn

### Etymology 1

Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.

#### Noun

lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)
* Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path […]. It twisted and turned, […] and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
* (England, historical or regional) An open space between woods.
* (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

##### Derived terms

* Chapel Lawn
* fold like a lawn chair
* gazelle on the lawn
* get-off-my-lawn
* get off my lawn
* lawn billiards
* lawn-bowl
* lawn bowling
* lawn bowls
* lawn bubble
* lawn-chair
* lawn chair
* lawn daisy
* lawn dart
* lawn dart effect
* lawned
* lawn food
* lawn gnome
* lawn jart
* lawn job
* lawn jockey
* lawn mixture
* lawnmower
* lawn party
* lawn prawn
* lawn rake
* lawn shrimp
* lawn sleeves
* lawn-sleeves
* lawn tennis
* moss lawn
* Oak Lawn
* Stalin's lawn
* tree lawn
* widow's lawn

##### Translations
#### Verb

lawn (third-person singular simple present lawns, present participle lawning, simple past and past participle lawned)
* (transitive) To furnish with a lawn.
** 1827, An Historical, Antiquarian, and Picturesque Account of Kirkstall Abbey, page 170: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; […]

### Etymology 2

Apparently from Laon, a French town known for its linen manufacturing, from Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, a Celtic name cognate with Lugdunum.

#### Noun

lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)
* (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
** 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), pages 107–108:Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.
** 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.
** 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 144: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.
* (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
* (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
** 1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie:[…] 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 […]

##### Translations

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### References

* “lawn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* ↑ Hare, Augustus J.C. (1890): North-Eastern France, p. 427

### Anagrams

* Waln, nawl, WLAN

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lau̯n/

### Adjective

lawn
* Soft mutation of llawn.

### Adverb

lawn
* Soft mutation of llawn.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.