meadow
Plural: meadows
Noun
- A tract of grassland, often used for hay.
- a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay
- A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
- Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
Verb
- To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.
Examples
- The board was so open, it felt like a vast MEADOW waiting for a long word to bloom.
- the salt meadows near Newark Bay
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-.
See also West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”); also Welsh medi, Latin metō, Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “reaping”). More at mow.
Scrabble Score: 12
meadow: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmeadow: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
meadow: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 13
meadow: valid Words With Friends Word