meadow

Syllables: mead·owUK/ˈmɛd.əʊ̯//ˈmɛd.oʊ̯/

meadow noun: a field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.

Noun

meadow (plural meadows)

A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.
- alpine meadows
- But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. […]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
Synonyms:

mead, lea, ley, leigh
Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
- the salt meadows near Newark Bay
- European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59

Verb

meadow (third-person singular simple present meadows, present participle meadowing, simple past and past participle meadowed)

To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.
- That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and...1917, The English Reports: Exchequer, page 789

Proper noun capitalized: Meadow

Meadow

A township in Clay County, Iowa.
A township in Wadena County, Minnesota.
An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota.
A town in Terry County, Texas.
A town in Millard County, Utah, originally named Meadow Creek.
A female given name.
- "Oh, shoot. This must be bad. You're drinking a cocktail in the middle of the day," Meadow said, leaning down to hug her sister.2017, Tina Martin, Before You Say I Do

meadow meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

meadow in Hindi

field or pasture: चरागाह carāgāh, तृणभूमि tŕṇbhūmi

meadow in Tamil

புல்வெளி, பசும்புல் நிலம், புல்தரை, சம்புற்றரை

meadow in Urdu

field or pasture: چَراگاہ carāgāh

meadow in Bengali

field or pasture: তৃণক্ষেত্র trinokkhetro, তৃণভূমি trinbhumi

More languagesFewer languages

meadow in Malayalam: പുൽത്തകിടി
meadow in Kannada: ಹುಲ್ಲುಗಾವಲು, ಹುಲ್ಲುಹಕ್ಕಲು, ಪುಲ್ಪಡಿ, ಪುಲ್ಪದಿ
meadow in Odia: ମଇଦାନ maidāna
meadow in Sanskrit: दान dāna
meadow in Pashto: ورشو waršo
meadow in Tagalog: parang
meadow in Arabic: مَرْج marj
meadow in Malay: padang rumput
meadow in Indonesian: padang rumput
meadow in Thai: ทุ่งหญ้า tûng-yâa
meadow in Vietnamese: đồng cỏ
meadow in Myanmar: မြက်ခင်း mrakhkang:

Examples of meadow in a sentence

Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind:

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Synonyms of meadow

Forms of meadow

Noun
plural	meadows
Verb
third-person singular present	meadows
present participle	meadowing
past participle	meadowed
past	meadowed

Plural of meadow: meadows

Origin of meadow

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, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. Related to mead (“meadow”) and to math (“mowed result or area”). More at mow. Cognates Cognate with Yola mead (“meadow”), Saterland Frisian Mäid (“meadow”), West Frisian miede (“meadow”), Dutch made (“hayland, meadow”), German Matte (“meadow”); also Cornish mysi (“to harvest; to mow”), Welsh medi (“to reap”), Latin metō (“to harvest, reap; to cut; to mow”), Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”).

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Questions about meadow

What does meadow mean?: Meadow means a field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.
What is meadow in Hindi?: Meadow in Hindi is चरागाह (carāgāh), तृणभूमि (tŕṇbhūmi). See Meadow meaning in Hindi.
How do you use meadow in a sentence?: Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]
What part of speech is meadow?: Meadow can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce meadow?: Meadow is pronounced /ˈmɛd.əʊ̯/ (UK).
What is the plural of meadow?: The plural of meadow is meadows.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meadow (page history and authors); Meadow (page history and authors); meadow (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meadow (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); meadow (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ମଇଦାନ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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