meadow

CEFRB2

/ˈmɛd.əʊ̯/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A field covered with grass and often wild flowers.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • Cows are eating grass in the meadow.

  • Horses don't like buttercups; they just leave them in the meadow.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
3

Also pronounced

  • /ˈmed.əʉ̯/
  • /ˈmeɾ.əʉ̯/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra 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.

More examples

In context

  • The stream winds through the meadow.

  • the salt meadows near Newark Bay

  • alpine meadows

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).