lawn
/lɔ:n/
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Definition
Noun: 1. An area of ground, typically in a garden, park, or around a building, that is covered with short, regularly mown grass. 2. A fine, sheer linen or cotton fabric, historically used for clothing.
Usage
The primary and most common usage refers to a managed grassy area. The fabric meaning is now largely historical or specialized.
Examples
Noun (Grassy Area): * They had a picnic on the lawn in front of the museum. * Keeping a green lawn requires regular watering and mowing. * The children are playing on the lawn.
Noun (Fabric - historical/specialized): * The portrait showed the gentleman wearing a cravat of fine lawn. * She preferred handkerchiefs made of soft lawn.
Advanced Usage
- "lawn care": The activity of maintaining a lawn's health and appearance (e.g., through mowing, fertilizing, aerating).
- "lawn tennis": The original name for the sport now commonly known simply as tennis, distinguishing it from real (royal) tennis, which was played indoors.
Variants and Related Words
- Lawnmower (n): A machine for cutting grass on a lawn.
- Lawny (adj): Resembling or characteristic of a lawn (e.g., a lawny expanse).
Synonyms
- Grass (n): (Can be used informally, though "grass" is more general and "lawn" implies cultivation and maintenance).
- Turf (n): (Often refers to the surface layer of grass and soil, or can be synonymous with lawn, especially in British English).
- Sward (n): (A literary term for an expanse of short grass).
Antonyms
- Garden (n): (Specifically a plot for flowers, vegetables, etc., though a lawn can be part of a garden).
- Wilderness (n): (An uncultivated, natural area).
- Pavement / Concrete (n): (A hard, artificial surface).
Related Phrases
- "to mow the lawn": The common phrase for cutting the grass on a lawn.
- "on the lawn": Describes location or activity happening on the grassy area.
Noun
- a field of cultivated and mowed grass