meadow
pronunciation
How to pronounce meadow in British English:
UK [ˈmedəʊ]
How to pronounce meadow in American English:
US [ˈmedoʊ]
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- Noun:
- a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay
Word Origin
- meadow
- meadow: [OE] Etymologically, meadow means ‘mowed land’. It goes back ultimately to an Indo-European *mētwá, a derivative of the base *mē- ‘mow’ (source of English mow [OE]). In prehistoric Germanic this became *mǣdwō (whence German matte ‘meadow’), which passed into Old English as mǣd. The modern English descendant of this, mead, now survives only as an archaism, but its inflected form, mǣdwe, has become modern English meadow.=> mow
- meadow (n.)
- Old English mædwe "meadow, pasture," originally "land covered in grass which is mown for hay;" oblique case of mæd (see mead (n.2)).
Example
- 1. And the meadow is silent as a false witness .
- 2. The indoor cat goes for an afternoon stroll in a scenic meadow .
- 3. Peacocks strut in the surrounding meadow .
- 4. Behind the window was a meadow with tall , lush grass , and wildflowers .
- 5. Fifty , sixty , one hundred howling wolves gathering on the meadow outside his room .