lawn
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
Noun 4 meanings
Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
A type of thin linen or cotton fabric tightly woven of fine threads. (Traditionally expensive and luxurious in centuries past.)
Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
Verb 1 meaning
To furnish with a lawn.
Etymology
Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
LAWN at a glance
LAWN has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (L 1 + A 1 + W 4 + N 1) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,243 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with lawn
All rhymesOne letter away
- LAWS7
- DAWN8
- PAWN9
- YAWN10
- FAWN10
- LAIN4
- SAWN7
- LOWN7
- LARN4
- BAWN9
- RAWN7
- MAWN9
- LAWK11
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