meadow

Meaning

Noun

• 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.

Related

Similar words

• lea/leigh

Origin

• 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 (compare West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (compare Welsh medi, Latin metere, Ancient Greek ἄμητος ("reaping")), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. More at mow.