Lawn
/lɔːn/noun
An area of short, regularly cut grass, usually in a yard or garden.
Did you know?English lawn comes from a word for a glade or open space in a forest, and the same early root gave English the word lea, a poetic term for a meadow.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*kel-
“to cover, conceal, or hide”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*lauhaz / *lauhō
“a grove, glade, or open woodland space”
Old French
OF
lande
“heath, moor, open uncultivated land”
Middle English
ME
launde
“an open grassy space; a glade”
16th Century
English
lawn
“an open stretch of ground, especially grass-covered land near a house”
Modern English
English
lawn
“a regularly mown grass area in a garden, park, or yard”