English Online Dictionary. What means lawn? What does lawn mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /lɔːn/
- (US) IPA(key): /lɔn/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /lɑn/
- Rhymes: -ɔːn
Etymology 1
Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.
Noun
lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)
- Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
- (England, historical or regional) An open space between woods.
- (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lawn (third-person singular simple present lawns, present participle lawning, simple past and past participle lawned)
- (transitive) To furnish with a lawn.
Etymology 2
Apparently from Laon, a French town known for its linen manufacturing, from Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, a Celtic name cognate with Lugdunum.
Noun
lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)
- (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
- (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
- (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
Translations
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lawn”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
- Waln, nawl, WLAN
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lau̯n/
Adjective
lawn
- Soft mutation of llawn.
Adverb
lawn
- Soft mutation of llawn.