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meadows

Syllables: Mead·ows/ˈmɛd.oʊz/

meadows is the plural of meadow.

meadows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of meadow.

Meaning of meadow

Noun

meadow (plural meadows)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    mead, lea, ley, leigh
  2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
    • the salt meadows near Newark Bay

See all 10 meanings of meadow

Proper noun capitalized: Meadows

Meadows (countable and uncountable, plural Meadowses)

  1. A surname.
  2. A town in Mount Barker district council area, South Australia, Australia.
  3. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  4. A small unincorporated community in McLean County, Illinois, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States.

Forms of meadows

pluralMeadowses

Origin of meadows

Variant of Meadow, with the patronymic suffix -s.

Phrases with meadows

10 more phrasesFewer phrases

Questions about meadows

What does meadows mean?
Meadows means a surname.
What is meadows the plural of?
Meadows is the plural of meadow.
What part of speech is meadows?
Meadows is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce meadows?
Meadows is pronounced /ˈmɛd.oʊz/.

Words near meadows in the dictionary

  1. meadowless
  2. meadowlike
  3. meadowpride
  4. meadowrue
  5. meadowrues
  6. meadows
  7. Meadows row
  8. Meadows rows
  9. meadowscape
  10. meadowscapes
  11. Meadowses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meadows (page history and authors); Meadows (page history and authors); meadow (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.

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