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Plural of lawn

regular plural

The plural of lawn is lawns.

Forms of lawn

Singularlawn /lɔːn/
Plurallawns
Countablecountable and uncountable

Lawns in a sentence

  • Sunbakers and frisbee-throwers occupy the lawns; tourists dunk their feet in fountains on hot summer afternoons.2009, Charles Rawlings-Way, Sydney, Lonely Planet, page 76. From the entry sunbaker
  • Thatching rakes with knifelike blades instead of teeth are useful for small lawns.1994, Cathy Haas, Janet Goldenberg, Michael MacCaskey, All about Lawns, page 77. From the entry thatching rake
  • They water their patch lawns and struggle to pick up the garbage left by Belmont Avenue barhoppers.1988 August 5, Lynda Gorov, “Nasty boys: Clifton-Belmont neighbors want their block back”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry barhopper
  • Its churchyard has a well-groomed air, with tailored hedges and lawns.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 55. From the entry well-groomed
  • Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 14. From the entry basher

Meaning of lawn

  1. noun Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
  2. noun An open space between woods.
  3. noun An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

Full definition of lawn

Questions about the plural of lawn

What is the plural of lawn?
The plural of lawn is lawns.
Is lawn countable?
Lawn is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lawn (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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