meadow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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-. Related to mead (“meadow”) and to math (“mowed result or area”). More at mow.
Cognates
Cognate with Yola mead (“meadow”), Saterland Frisian Mäid (“meadow”), West Frisian miede (“meadow”), Dutch made (“hayland, meadow”), German Matte (“meadow”); also Cornish mysi (“to harvest; to mow”), Welsh medi (“to reap”), Latin metō (“to harvest, reap; to cut; to mow”), Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”).
Inflected forms:
form: meadows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: meadows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meadowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: meadowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: meadowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: alpine meadows
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,[…].
[…]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,[…]
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.
gloss: Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
pos: noun
examples: the salt meadows near Newark Bay
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.
gloss: To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.
pos: verb
examples: That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.
Derived words: alpine meadow lizard
Altona Meadows
annual meadow grass
Banksmeadow
Braemeadows
Broadmeadow
Broadmeadows
catch-meadow
Claremont Meadows
Devon Meadows
dole meadow
Fairy Meadow
Far Meadow
flood meadow
Fresh Meadows
in Dickie's meadow
king of the meadow
Kings Meadows
Marshall Meadows
meadowage
meadow argus
Meadowbank
meadow barley
meadow beauty
meadow bright
Meadowbrook
meadow brown
meadow buttercup
meadow clary
meadow clover
meadow cranesbill
Meadow Creek
meadow cress
meadow dermatitis
meadowed
meadower
meadow fern
meadow fescue
Meadow Flat
meadowfoam
meadow foxtail
meadow frog
meadow garlic
meadow golden
meadow grass
meadow grass dermatitis
Meadowhall
meadowhawk
meadow hay
Meadow Heights
meadow horsetail
meadowing
meadowish
meadow jumping mouse
meadowland
meadowlark
meadow leek
meadowless
meadowlike
meadow lily
meadow map
Meadow
Meadows
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 Springs
meadow starling
meadowsweet
meadow thistle
Meadowvale
meadow violet
meadow vole
meadow-wink
meadowwort
meadowy
Meroo Meadow
queen of the meadow
Rosemeadow
Seaford Meadows
The Meadows
water meadow
water-meadow
Westmeadows
wet meadow
Wildes Meadow
yellow meadow ant
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