lawn
//lɔːn//
Forms
- Plural
- lawns
- present (v1)
- lawn
- past (v2)
- lawned
- past participle (v3)
- lawned
- present participle
- lawning
- 3rd person singular
- lawns
Definitions
1.Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
- Tom was asked by Mary to mow the lawn.
2.An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
- Tom was asked by Mary to mow the lawn.
3.A type of thin linen or cotton fabric tightly woven of fine threads. (Traditionally expensive and luxurious in centuries past.)
- 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.
4.Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
- Tom was asked by Mary to mow the lawn.
1.To furnish with a lawn.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3653
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
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”).