meadow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛd.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɛd.oʊ/
ipa: [ˈmɛɾoʊ]
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈmɛd.ʌo̞/
rhymes: -ɛdəʊ
Forms: form: meadows
Etymology: From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-.
See also West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”); also Welsh medi, Latin metō, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “reaping”). More at mow.
Senses: examples: text: But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: […]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:
glosses: A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
examples: text: the salt meadows near Newark Bay
text: 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.
ref: 2013 January 24, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:
glosses: Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
Synonyms: lea
leigh
Derived terms: alpine meadow lizard
annual meadow grass
catch-meadow
dole meadow
flood meadow
in Dickie's meadow
Marshall Meadows
meadowage
meadow argus
meadow barley
meadow beauty
meadow bright
meadow brown
meadow buttercup
meadow clary
meadow clover
meadow cranesbill
meadow cress
meadow dermatitis
meadowed
meadower
meadow fern
meadow fescue
meadowfoam
meadow foxtail
meadow frog
meadow garlic
meadow golden
meadow grass
meadow grass dermatitis
Meadowhall
meadowhawk
meadow hay
meadow horsetail
meadowing
meadowish
meadow jumping mouse
meadowland
meadowlark
meadow leek
meadowless
meadowlike
meadow lily
meadow map
meadow mouse
meadow muffin
meadow mushroom
meadow nematode
meadow ore
meadow oxeye
meadow parsnip
meadow pea
meadow pink
meadow pipit
meadow rue
meadowrue
meadow-saffron
meadow saffron
meadow salsify
meadow saxifrage
meadowscape
meadow spikemoss
meadow spittlebug
meadow starling
meadowsweet
meadow thistle
meadow violet
meadow vole
meadow-wink
meadowwort
meadowy
queen of the meadow
water meadow
water-meadow
wet meadow
yellow meadow ant