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Meadow

//ˈmɛd.oʊ// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Clay County, Iowa.
  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Wadena County, Minnesota.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Terry County, Texas.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Millard County, Utah, originally named Meadow Creek.
  2. 7
    A female given name.

    ""Oh, shoot. This must be bad. You're drinking a cocktail in the middle of the day," Meadow said, leaning down to hug her sister."

Noun
  1. 1
    A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.

    "But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…]."

  2. 2
    a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay wordnet
  3. 3
    Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

    "the salt meadows near Newark Bay"

Verb
  1. 1
    To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.

    "That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. See also West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”); also Welsh medi, Latin metō, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “reaping”). More at mow.

Etymology 2

From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. See also West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”); also Welsh medi, Latin metō, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “reaping”). More at mow.

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