greensward
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈɡriːnˌswɔrd/
- Archaic
:
pradera
- We decided to have a picnic on the greensward at the park, surrounded by blooming flowers.
- greensward of Central Park
Examples
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Those were the days, on the greensward, as the poets among us called it, with the various but-colored linen or canvas tents billowing in the breeze, the crowd moaning or raving as we did this or that, and, oh bliss at the end, the long drinks.
Fiction book (1994) -
The grass across the avenue on the Capitol greensward had been watered earlier in the morning from jets buried in the ground.
Fiction book (1997) -
All of them lay now beyond the reach of war or weather, under the greensward of Culloden Field.
Fiction book (1992) -
He patted the low wall where he sat and looked away toward the state capitol and its immense greensward.
Fiction book (1997) -
On the patio, which overlooked a common greensward, sat a pitcher of icy lemonade.
Fiction book (1991) -
Viola picked up her glass of lemonade, returned to the edge of the patio, and stared out at the greensward again.
Fiction book (1991) -
There is plenty of noise in other games or sports, but this is a game for the taciturn, the introverted, the dreamer, the one who ponders amid the violence around him on the greensward.
Fiction book (1994) -
Olmsted's love for the sweeping pastoral greenery of the English countryside, reproduced in the parks he had admired, inspired his signal contribution to the plan, which he and Vaux called Greensward.
Academic text (2011) -
Under a special state law, the city acquired 843 acres smack in the middle of Manhattan and selected the famous 1858 Greensward Plan by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as the design for the new park.
Academic text (2004) -
The children played on the soft greensward, enjoying the warm sun on their backs.
Synonyms
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2.7
The top layer of ground held together by grass roots
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2.2
A layer of soil with grass and roots held together
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9.6
A layer of ground covered with grass
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3.0
A park or grassy place in a town where people can relax and play
How Grassy
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Morphology
Etymology
Greensward is made of green and sward, where sward means 'a grass surface'. So a greensward is a stretch of green grass, like a park lawn.