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LAWN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A field of cultivated and mowed grass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("lawn" is a kind of...):
field (a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed)
Context examples:
It was a tiny house, with a little garden behind and a lawn about as big as a pocket handkerchief in the front.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Left alone, I walked to the window; but nothing was to be seen thence: twilight and snowflakes together thickened the air, and hid the very shrubs on the lawn.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mr. Rushworth, shall we summon a council on this lawn?
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really belong, afforded her no equals.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She was struck, however, beyond her expectation, by the grandeur of the abbey, as she saw it for the first time from the lawn.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Chlordecone has been used as an insecticide on bananas, non-bearing citrus trees, tobacco, lawns and flowers.
(Chlordecone, NCI Thesaurus)
Chlordane is a chlorinated hydrocarbon used as a non-systemic contact insecticide for lawns and crops.
(Chlordane, NCI Thesaurus)
We enjoy looking at a lush green lawn or a red rose in full bloom.
(Color Blindness, NIH)
Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
They were in the middle of nowhere and it looked like someone had been in there with a lawn mower, Hull said.
(Belly up to the bamboo buffet: Pandas vs. horses, NSF)
