meadow Meaning, Definition & Usage

Mead"ow noun

Etymology

AS. meady; akin to md, and to G. matte; prob. also to E. mow. See Mow to cut (grass), and cf. 2d Mead.

Definitions

1. A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.

Mead"ow adjective

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. "Fat meadow ground." Milton. ✍ For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary.