lawn
pronunciation
How to pronounce lawn in British English:
UK [lɔːn]
How to pronounce lawn in American English:
US [lɔːn]
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- Noun:
- a field of cultivated and mowed grass
Word Origin
- lawn
- lawn: English has two words lawn. ‘Grassy area’ [16] is ultimately the same word as land. It is an alteration of an earlier laund ‘glade’, which came from Old French launde ‘heath’, a borrowing from the same prehistoric Germanic source as produced English land. Lawn was originally used for ‘glade’ too, and it was not until the 18th century that its present-day meaning emerged. Lawn ‘fine linen or cotton’ [15] probably comes from Laon, the name of a town in northern France where linen was formerly manufactured.=> land
- lawn (n.1)
- "turf, stretch of grass," 1540s, laune "glade, open space between woods," from Middle English launde (c. 1300), from Old French lande "heath, moor, barren land; clearing" (12c.), from Gaulish (compare Breton lann "heath"), or from its Germanic cognate, source of English land (n.). The -d perhaps mistaken for an affix and dropped. Sense of "grassy ground kept mowed" first recorded 1733.
- lawn (n.2)
- "thin linen or cotton cloth," early 15c., probably from Laon, city in northern France, a center of linen manufacture. The town name is Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, of Celtic origin.
Example
- 1. Consider more carefully the good parts of your lawn .
- 2. Eg. the children are having a frolic on the lawn .
- 3. Thousands of people filled the capitol lawn .
- 4. Moles also eat many lawn and garden pests .
- 5. The lawn is the archetypal enemy .