lawn
IPA: ɫˈɔn
noun
- (England, historical or regional) An open space between woods.
- Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
- (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
- (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
- (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
- (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
- A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, United States.
- A town in Texas, United States.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia, United States.
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Examples of "lawn" in Sentences
- It's a reminder to mow your lawn.
- Grounds and lawns remained parched.
- Oak Lawn politics taint everything.
- He is mowing the lawn and drinking scotch.
- He does as the lawn mower is over the hole.
- The homeless are feed on the lawn of the City Hall.
- The tops of the foundations are visible in the mowed lawn.
- In the middle of cutting the grass, my lawn mower breaks down.
- ~Joe walked across Demi's lawn and across her neighbor's lawn~
- But in the middle of cutting the grass my lawn mower breaks down.
- Forcing everyone to play Frisbee for 2 hours on their lawn is another.
- The first power tool to become popular with gardeners was the lawn mower.
- The plants in the yard are wilting and the lawn is an earthy shade of brown.
- Weather: The little moisture every day has been wonderful -- my lawn is actually turning green, and my well may actually have water this summer.
- Clearly, the term lawn, with its 19th-century connotation of society matrons batting a powder puff, should be deleted from the titles of all official national tennis organizations.
- But, do you at least understand how people can be confused that on one hand a white person using the ‘n’ word or joking about watermelon growing on the White House lawn is incredibly offensive and at the same time we applaud a video where a black man freely uses the ‘n’ word.
- The site of political demonstrations, sporting events, and barbecues, and the object of loving, if not obsessive, care and attention, the lawn is also symbolically tied to our notions of community and civic responsibility, serving in the process as one of the foundations of democracy.