meadow

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  1. noun A tract of grassland, either in its natural state or used as pasture or for growing hay.

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  • Now, she cannot count, for she does not know when the meadow will be alive again. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 02 - August 1999
  • Occasionally hidden by the flapping of the banners in the steady breeze over the meadow were the triumphant figures of Admiral Benden and Governor Boll. —  Dragons Dawn
  • On their arrival, the first person they met in the meadow was the Abbe himself, reading his prayers with one of his monks. —  Bayard: The Good Knight Without Fear And Without Reproach
  • The sweet clover also, of both the white and red varieties, is scattered more or less among the taller grasses; so that the meadow is as fragrant as a bank of wild flowers, or a parterre in a garden. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of Schamyl, by J. Milton Mackie.
  • As mentioned numerous times, the sparkle effect in the meadow was atrocious. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Middle English medwe, medoue, from Old English mǣdwe, oblique case of mǣd; see mē-4 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe, from Anglo-Saxon mǣd (nominative and accusative singular), plural mǣdwa, mǣda, mēdwa (the nominative singular mǣdwe, feminine, and mǣdwa, masculine, being rare and uncertain; stem mǣdw- or mǣdw-) = OFries. mede = Dutch mat, a meadow, = Middle Low German mēde, made = Old High German *mata (*matta), in comp. mato-screch, a grasshopper, Middle High German mate, matte, German matte, also matt (especially in place-names), a meadow; usually referred, as ‘a place mowed’ or ‘to be mowed,’ to the verb mow, Anglo-Saxon māwan; but the noun with the formative -d (-th) from this verb is math (Anglo-Saxon mǣth = Old High German mād, Middle High German māt, German mahd, etc.), a different word, and the Anglo-Saxon word in its orig. form (stem mǣdw-) can hardly be so formed from māwan, mow, there being no recognized formative -dw. But possibly the root *mǣd-, *mād- (the formative being -w), may be cognate with L. mētere, reap, mow, which may contain an extended form of the root of mow: see mow.
 

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