meadow

plural meadows

1. A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.

   alpine meadows

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   But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. […]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].

   1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC

   […]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]

   1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC

   Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.

   1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind

   Synonyms: mead, lea, ley, leigh

2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

   the salt meadows near Newark Bay

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   European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

   2013 January 28, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59

present singular third person meadows · participle present meadowing · participle past meadowed · past meadowed

1. To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.

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   That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.

   1917, The English Reports: Exchequer, page 789

1. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A township in Clay County, Iowa.
   2. A township in Wadena County, Minnesota.
   3. An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
   4. An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota.
   5. A town in Terry County, Texas.
   6. A town in Millard County, Utah, originally named Meadow Creek.
2. A female given name.

   "Oh, shoot. This must be bad. You're drinking a cocktail in the middle of the day," Meadow said, leaning down to hug her sister.

   2017, Tina Martin, Before You Say I Do