MEADOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meadow mean? 

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

1. a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEADOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

hayfield; meadow

Hypernyms ("meadow" is a kind of...):

grassland (land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life)

 Context examples 

When the wolf had satisfied his appetite he took himself off, laid himself down under a tree in the green meadow outside, and began to sleep.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

With what feelings I welcomed single trees I knew, and familiar glimpses of meadow and hill between them!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the shoulder, and pointed over the meadows.

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

On the Gascon side of the great mountains there had been running streams, meadows, forests, and little nestling villages.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She could not turn her eyes from the meadow; she could not help watching all that passed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Although seagrass meadows occupy less than 0.2 percent of the world's oceans, they are responsible for more than 10 percent of all carbon buried annually in the sea.

(Sharks, the seagrass protectors, National Science Foundation)

3d, The said man-mountain shall confine his walks to our principal high roads, and not offer to walk, or lie down, in a meadow or field of corn.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The scientists are also testing whether other at-risk ecosystems — such as seagrass meadows and coral reefs — may be similarly protected by mutualistic relationships between keystone species.

(Biodiversity in salt marshes builds climate resilience, NSF)

Sometimes, indeed, I dreamt that I wandered in flowery meadows and pleasant vales with the friends of my youth, but I awoke and found myself in a dungeon.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For millions of years, symbiotic bacteria have lived inside the gills of Lucinidae clams found in seagrass meadows located along tropical coasts, such as the Florida Keys.

(Microbe diversity is key to healthy coastal ecosystems, National Science Foundation)