LAWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lawn mean? 

• LAWN (noun)
  The noun LAWN has 1 sense:

1. a field of cultivated and mowed grass

  Familiarity information: LAWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAWN (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 

Holmes walked slowly up and down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the outsides of the windows.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He then asked her to walk into the house—but she declared herself not tired, and they stood together on the lawn.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Back he circled, across the drive to the other lawn, and again she headed him off.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And we all walked from the lawn towards the carriage, which was getting ready.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was much moonshine; and as I looked I could see Quincey Morris run across the lawn and hide himself in the shadow of a great yew-tree.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This place, Deep Dene House, is a big modern villa of staring brick, standing back in its own grounds, with a laurel-clumped lawn in front of it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Noise is all around you, from televisions and radios to lawn mowers and washing machines.

(Noise, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

On the green lawn before it many men and women were dancing.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The house of the famous official was a fine villa with green lawns stretching down to the Thames.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other hand, he could get out on to the lawn with ease.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)