lawn

CEFRB1

/lɔːn/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An area of short grass around a house or building.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An open space between woods.

Examples

  • In summer we have to mow the lawn twice a week.

  • It began to rain, so he need not have watered the lawn.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

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

verb

Extra meaning

  1. To furnish with a lawn.

More examples

In context

  • Let's take advantage of the vacation to mow the lawn.

  • 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.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The children played on the green blank in front of the house.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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.