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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Clay County, Iowa.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Wadena County, Minnesota.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Terry County, Texas.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Millard County, Utah, originally named Meadow Creek.
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name
A female given name.
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noun
A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: mead, lea, ley, leigh
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noun
Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
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verb
To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.
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noun
a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hayfield
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Broader terms: grassland
History
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-. Related to mead (“meadow”) and to math (“mowed result or area”). More at mow. Cognates Cognate with Yola mead (“meadow”), Saterland Frisian Mäid (“meadow”), West Frisian miede (“meadow”), Dutch made (“hayland, meadow”), German Matte (“meadow”); also Cornish mysi (“to harvest; to mow”), Welsh medi (“to reap”), Latin metō (“to harvest, reap; to cut; to mow”), Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”).
Across languages
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