lawn

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An area of short, regularly cut grass, usually around a house or in a garden.

   He spends every Saturday morning mowing the lawn.

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Simplified etymology

Lawn in the sense of grassy ground is a 16th-century alteration of dialectal laund “glade, pasture,” from Old French launde “wooded district, heath,” ultimately of Celtic origin; its modern sense of short, mown grass dates from the mid-18th century. The unrelated Middle English lawn meaning a fine fabric probably comes from Laon, a French city once important for linen manufacture.

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.

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