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treelawn

treelawn is the alternative form of tree lawn.

Meaning of tree lawn

Noun

tree lawn (plural tree lawns)

  1. (especially Upper Midwestern US) A strip of unpaved land, especially if planted with trees, running alongside a street, usually between the sidewalk and street.
    • Detached sidewalks generally occur in residential areas and are normally separated from the curb by a tree lawn.1998, D. Gail Abbey, U.S. Landscape Ordinances: An Annotated Reference Handbook
    Synonyms:
    berm, besidewalk, boulevard, boulevard strip, city easement, common, county strip, curb lawn, curb strip, devil strip/devil's strip/devilstrip

Forms of treelawn

pluraltreelawns

Questions about treelawn

What is treelawn the alternative form of?
Treelawn is the alternative form of tree lawn.

Words near treelawn in the dictionary

  1. Treeing Tennessee Brindle
  2. Treeing Walker Coonhound
  3. treeings
  4. treeish
  5. treekind
  6. treelawn
  7. treelawns
  8. treelength
  9. treelengths
  10. treeless
  11. treelessly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: treelawn (page history and authors); tree lawn (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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