meadow

/ˈmɛd.əʊ̯/

meadow means A number of places in the United States:; A township in Clay County, Iowa. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 71 out of 100.

meadow is pronounced /ˈmɛd.əʊ̯/.

Etymology

From 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. Cognates Cognate with Yola mead (“meadow”), Saterland Frisian Mäid (“meadow”), West Frisian miede (“meadow”), Dutch made (“hayland, meadow”), German Matte (“meadow”); also Cornish mysi (“to harvest; to mow”), Welsh medi (“to reap”), Latin metō (“to harvest, reap; to cut; to mow”), Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”).

name

A number of places in the United States:; A township in Clay County, Iowa.
A number of places in the United States:; A township in Wadena County, Minnesota.
A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Perkins County, South Dakota.
A number of places in the United States:; A town in Terry County, Texas.
A number of places in the United States:; A town in Millard County, Utah, originally named Meadow Creek.

noun

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.“alpine meadows”
Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.“the salt meadows near Newark Bay”

verb

To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.“That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture ”