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lawn

UK/lɒn/ US/lɔn/ fairly common

noun

1.

a field of cultivated and mowed grass

Origin

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”). Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.

Phrases

  • Chapel Lawn
  • Fair Lawn
  • fold like a lawn chair
  • gazelle on the lawn
  • get off my lawn
  • lawn base
  • lawn billiards
  • lawn bowl

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