- [countable] an area of ground covered in short grass in a garden or park, or used for playing a game on
- In summer we have to mow the lawn twice a week.
- The hotel boasts two tennis courts and a croquet lawn.
- They served afternoon tea on the lawn (= a large area of grass, near a big house, for example).
Extra ExamplesTopics Gardensc1- The cottage sits on a hill above a sweep of lawn.
- The lawn really needs mowing.
- a carefully tended lawn
- the correct way to maintain a lawn
- They walked across the lawn towards the river.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- manicured
- neat
- well-tended
- …
- cut
- mow
- trim
- …
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- [uncountable] a type of fine cotton or linen cloth used for making clothes
Word Originsense 1 mid 16th cent.: alteration of dialect laund ‘glade, pasture’, from Old French launde ‘wooded district, heath’, of Celtic origin. The current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.sense 2 Middle English: probably from Laon, the name of a city in France important for linen manufacture.
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