meadow

noun

Definition of meadownext
as in grass
a usually flat area of land that is covered with tall grass The sanctuary contains several large meadows that are home to a variety of wildlife.

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Recent Examples of meadow Elsewhere on the estate are an orchard, a kitchen garden, wildflower meadows, an aviary, an all-weather tennis court, and a swimming pool. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 15 July 2026 The All England Club introduced the queue in 1922 once the venue changed from a small meadow to larger grounds on Church Road, still in the famed SW19 postal code area. — Nick Pachelli, Time, 11 July 2026 Davies recommends pairing milkweed with similarly vigorous meadow plants. — Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 11 July 2026 Its 65 freestanding cabins and cottages are tucked among wildflower meadows, woodlands and a working farm, where mornings begin on hiking trails, in the gardens or with a cup of coffee overlooking the landscape. — Kate Donnelly, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for meadow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meadow
  1. grass
  2. field
  3. grassland
  4. pasture
  5. plot
  6. plain
  7. prairie
  8. ground
Noun
  • One student pushes a wheelbarrow across the Oakland Cemetery grass while others break up soil, rakes in hand.
    — Nila Roper, AJC.com, 21 July 2026
  • At a park in the hills of central Pennsylvania, children in jerseys shout in a mix of English and Nepali, chasing a ball across the grass while their parents watch from the sidelines.
    — Maansi Srivastava, NPR, 21 July 2026
Definition of grass
Noun
  • Selling the fields wouldn’t change much of the site’s day-to-day operations, Napper said.
    — Sofi Zeman July 24, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026
  • Charlotte deploys about 10 dedicated litter crews in the field each day.
    — Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 24 July 2026
Definition of field
Noun
  • Natural Selection’s new-build camp Tawana is set amid Botswana’s Moremi Game Reserve, some 1,900 square miles of grassland and flood plain teeming with antelope and elephants, lions and hippos.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 23 July 2026
  • In Brazil, both the Amazon rainforest and the vast grassland known as the Cerrado have been rapidly transformed through clearing and logging operations into pastures and cropland.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026
Definition of grassland
Noun
  • Properties listed range from pastures for rent to a few dozen acres of unplanted land for sale to larger plots with orchards for sale.
    — Lizzie Kane July 18, Sacbee.com, 18 July 2026
  • On early mornings, Voros would spot a solitary wolf miles away, crossing the pasture at a run.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026
Definition of pasture
Noun
  • The plot lacks essential narrative ligaments and makes David Lynch’s canon seem downright accessible.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
  • In an incident some news commentators are likening to the plot of the 1984 film The Terminator, two of OpenAI’s AI models broke out of a supervised test, got themselves online, and used that access to hack into rival company Hugging Face’s systems.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 July 2026
Definition of plot
Noun
  • The record there shows us a circle of 15-foot-high limestone walls with towers and ramparts on a verdant coastal plain, not a desert city of earth and clay.
    — Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 22 July 2026
  • The shaggy bovines of the plains and boreal forests were nearly hunted to extinction in a frenzy of killing that decimated their population.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 20 July 2026
Definition of plain
Noun
  • The Los Angeles man was charged with one count of misdemeanor firing timber or prairie lands, which is punishable by up to 6 months in county jail, a fine up to $1,000, or both.
    — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 23 July 2026
  • An aerial photo shows a prairie in the Okefenokee Swamp on Tuesday, August 12, 2025.
    — Drew Kann, AJC.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of prairie
Noun
  • But lawyers for the Haitians maintained a narrow challenge on constitutional grounds.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
  • History makes clear that the deployment of large ground formations is no guarantee of strategic success.
    — David A. Deptula, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of ground

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