ley
/lei/
Definition
- Noun:
- A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock: A piece of land, often a pasture or meadow, that is used for animals to feed on.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- The farmer's sheep grazed peacefully in the ley.
- They decided to convert the old farmland into a ley to support their cattle.
Advanced Usage
- "In ley": Describing land that is currently or permanently maintained as pasture.
- Much of the countryside here is kept in ley.
Variants and Related Words
- Lea (n): A poetic or archaic variant with the same meaning as "ley," referring to a meadow or pasture.
- They wandered through the sunny lea.
Synonyms
- Pasture: Land used for grazing.
- Meadow: A field of grass and wildflowers.
- Grassland: A large open area of country covered with grass.
- Grazing land: Land suitable for animals to feed on.
Related Phrases
- Ley farming: An agricultural system involving the rotation of crops and pasture (this is a compound term listed here as it is a specific related concept).
- Ley farming helps to maintain soil fertility.
Related Idioms
(No common idioms are directly and exclusively formed with the word "ley.")
Noun
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a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
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