Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Land used as a meadow; also, meadows collectively.

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Examples

  • On a fair smooth road went they amidst of a goodly meadow-land, wherein were little copses here and there.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • The flowery grass came down to the very water, and first was a fair meadow-land besprinkled with big ancient trees; thence arose slopes of vineyard, and orchard and garden; and, looking down on all, was

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • The exit from the plain and meadow-land round the lake was a narrow aperture through a close encircling range of hills.

    Hellenica 2007

  • The place lies on the direct road from Lacedaemon to Olympia, about twenty furlongs from the temple of Zeus in Olympia, and within the sacred enclosure there is meadow-land and wood-covered hills, suited to the breeding of pigs and goats and cattle and horses, so that even the sumpter animals of the pilgrims passing to the feast fare sumptuously.

    Anabasis 2007

  • She felt happy in the little lonely cot, and her heart had gone out to the sweet meadow-land, and she loved it after all the trouble of the water; and herseemed that even now, in the dusk a-growing into dark, it loved and caressed her.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • He owned thirteen farms, an old abbey, whose windows and arches he had walled up for the sake of economy, — a measure which preserved them, — also a hundred and twenty-seven acres of meadow-land, where three thousand poplars, planted in 1793, grew and flourished; and finally, the house in which he lived.

    Eug�nie Grandet 2007

  • With the decline and departure of the sun a fog gathered itself out of the low meadow-land that bordered the railway as they went along towards the west, stretching over it like a placid lake, till at the end of the journey, the mist became generally pervasive, though not dense.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • They stretched from the sunken garden down to an old orchard, beyond which rose a swell of meadow-land.

    Maid in Waiting 2004

  • Here stands the homestead, and here lies the meadow-land; there walk the kine

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Although his gun was empty, he struck the breech of it with his finger; and then he turned away, not deigning even once to look back again; and Lorna saw his giant figure striding across the meadow-land, as if the Ridds were nobodies, and he the proper owner.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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