lawn

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

lawn, n. [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.].

•  An open space between woods.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

  "“Orchard lawns and bowery hollows.”"  [1913 Webster]
•  Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.  [1913 Webster]

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. [Earlier laune lynen, i. e., lawn linen; prob. from the town Laon in France.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]
"A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lawn, n. a piece of grass kept mown and smooth in a garden, park, etc.

Idiom

lawn tennis the usual form of tennis, played with a soft ball on outdoor grass or a hard court.

lawn, n. a fine linen or cotton fabric used for clothes.

Derivative

lawny adj.

Etymology

ME, prob. f. Laon in France

THESAURUS

lawn

Astroturf, artificial turf, bowling green, common, fairway, golf course, golf links, grassplot, green, greensward, greenyard, grounds, park, putting green, sod, sward, turf, village green

ROGET THESAURUS

lawn

Plain

N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.

Agriculture

N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.