meadow
A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or…A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.
» Cows are eating grass in the meadow.
Die Kühe essen auf der Weide Gras.
Коровы едят траву на лугу.
Коровы щиплют травку на лугу.
Корови пасуться на лугу.
Meaning
2 sensesA field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.
alpine meadows
Wiese, Weide, Aue
лугlug, поля́наpoljána
лугluh, поля́наpoljána, лука́luká
a piece of land covered or mostly covered with grass; a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay
Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
the salt meadows near Newark Bay
лука́luká
лука́luká
Examples
118 sentencesCows are eating grass in the meadow.
Корови пасуться на лугу.
ruКоровы едят траву на лугу.
deDie Kühe essen auf der Weide Gras.
We saw cows grazing in the meadow.
deWir sahen Milchkühe auf der Weide Gras fressen.
People without a sense of humor are like meadows without flowers.
Cows are grazing in the meadow.
Корови пасуться на лугу.
ruКоровы пасутся на лугу.
Hope is the meadow on which fools graze.
Дурень думкою багатіє.
deHoffnung ist die Wiese, auf der die Narren grasen.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old EnglFrom Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. Related to mead (“meadow”) and to math (“mowed result or area”). More at mow.
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