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lawn

lawn

464 1.0
An area of short grass in a garden or park
  • noun
  • /lɔn/
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  • The next-door neighbor's dog barked as he walked across the lawn toward the house.
  • mow the lawn
  • a manicured lawn
  • lawn mower

Why build a New Castle on the lawn when you can?

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Examples

  • Thousands of people standing out on the lawn in front of the courthouse.

    Megyn Kelly

  • David would be probably pacing the front lawn of his new home.

  • We just see a flat lawn with grass.

    Garden Answer

  • Yeah, the one with the perfect lawn.

    Here (2024)

  • That man has no regard for lawn maintenance.

    Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

  • Men are starting to gather on the lawn in front of the control tower.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Go around the house to your left, and cross the lawn diagonally.

    Sleuth (1972)

  • Watching her brothers playing on the green lawn, she suddenly envied them their freedom, what seemed their youth.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • As many witnesses have explained, an afternoon on the lawn at Royce's country house was no holiday.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The children played soccer on the lawn in the backyard.

Compounds

lawn mower
28 2.1

A machine that cuts grass on a lawn

lawn chair
  • US
15 1.9

A light folding seat for sitting outside on grass

lawn furniture
  • US
3 2.5

Chairs and tables used outside on a lawn or in a garden

lawn bowling
  • UK
1 5.0

A game on flat grass where players roll balls to stop near a small white ball called a jack

lawn dart
  • Archaic
1 6.8

A heavy pointed object you throw outside toward a target on the ground

lawn tennis
1 2.8

A sport where two or four players hit a ball over a net on a grass court

lawn party
1 2.4

A party on a grass area where people have drinks and play games

Korean lawn grass
  • US
7.4

A grass from East Asia grown for lawns and yards

lawn tool
1.7

A tool for keeping a lawn tidy, like a mower or rake

lawn cart
  • US
2.7

A small box with wheels and a handle for carrying garden soil and tools

Lawn Guyland
  • Slang
9.9

A humorous nickname for Long Island that refers to its lawns and suburban accent

Japanese lawn grass
  • US
5.8

A grass used for lawns in Japan, China, and warm parts of the United States

How Neat

lawn
464 1.0
patch
153 2.7
the rough
  • Jargon
5 7.0

Surface Forms

lawn singular
lawns plural

Etymology

Lawn comes from an old word for a small open piece of land or 'glade'. So a lawn is a cleared area of short grass in a garden or park, which fits the original idea of open land.