lawn
(noun) a field of cultivated and mowed grass
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Lawn
A town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States.
A town in Texas, United States.
An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
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lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)
An open space between woods.
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
(biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
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.
• WLAN, nawl
Source: Wiktionary
Lawn, n. Etym: [OE. laund, launde, F. lande heath, moor; of Celtic origin; cf. W. llan an open, clear place, llawnt a smooth rising hill, lawn, Armor. lann or lan territory, country, lann a prickly plant, pl. lannou heath, moor.]
1. An open space between woods. Milton. "Orchard lawns and bowery hollows." Tennyson.
2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. Lawn mower, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns.
– Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See Tennis.
Lawn, n. Etym: [Earlier laune lynen, i. e., lawn linen; prob. from the town Laon in France.]
Definition: A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself. A saint in crape is twice in lawn. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
