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mown

mown

1 2.3
Grass that has been cut by a machine or tool
  • adjective
  • /moʊn/
translation icon : cortado
  • The neighbors brought covered dishes and covered words to the house and stood in new-mown grass by the gravesite.
  • mown grass
  • mown lawn
  • mown hay

Examples

  • All flesh is grass, the scent of mown fields, of wheat.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • A UPS delivery man was trotting across the newly mown grassy rectangle toward the opposite side of the complex.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • So often, she said, Americans wanted more mown lawn.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • Clean as a new-mown field.

    Samson and Delilah (1949)

  • "You smell like a new-mown lawn," she told me.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • New mown hay.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • My eyes burned, and I smelled the faint odor of new-mown hay.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • There was a peculiar fragrance about Delphaeus, a scent of new-mown hay.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • I breathed in the season's smell, or sucked it in, really—a mixture of mown hay, pine trees, brook mist, and mulch.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The park was filled with the refreshing scent of mown grass after the gardeners finished trimming the lawn.

Synonyms

cut
vsmown
1 1.0

Trimmed or mown grass ready to gather

means vegetation shortened close to the ground rather than lightly trimmed
new-mown
vsmown
1 6.1

Recently cut grass or hay that still smells fresh

refers to vegetation shortened without implying recent action

Antonyms

overgrown
52 3.4

Covered with plants that grow out of control

unmown
1 6.1

Grass or a lawn that people have not cut and let grow long

Compounds

new-mown
1 6.1

Recently cut grass or hay that still smells fresh

How Short

mown
1 2.3
unmown
1 6.1

Surface Forms

mown positive

Morphology

mown = mow (transparent) = mow + n

The adjective is the past participle form of the verb 'mow' acting adjectivally; its meaning is directly derived from the verb 'mow' (cut down).

Etymology

Mown comes from the verb mow, which means 'to cut', especially grass. Think of a mower, the machine that cuts lawns, to remember that mown means 'cut down', usually of grass or hay.