lawn
part of speech
noun (a lawn, lawns)
meaning for a pupil
An area of short, neat grass, usually in a garden or park, that is cut regularly. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life, people mow the lawn with a lawnmower, which is dangerous: children should keep away when it is running and never touch the blades. Lawns need water, sun and cutting. In science, a lawn is a habitat for worms, insects and birds; daisies and clover often grow in lawns. In maths, lawns appear in area and perimeter problems: a rectangular lawn 8 m by 5 m has an area of 40 square metres. Phrases: "mow the lawn", "keep off the lawn", "lawnmower", "front/back lawn".
examples
- Dad mows the lawn every Saturday. tree →
- Please keep off the lawn; it has just been seeded. tree →
- We played croquet on the lawn. tree →
- The lawn is 10 metres long and 6 metres wide. tree →
- Blackbirds pull worms out of the lawn. tree →
- Stay away from the lawnmower while it is running. tree →
- The lawn turned brown in the dry summer. tree →
- Daisies were growing all over the lawn. tree →
- The animal was fiery and spirited; they galloped round the lawn. tree →
note
Countable: a lawn, lawns. Spelling: aw, as in "saw". In maths, "area of the lawn" = length × width (square units), and "fence around the lawn" = perimeter = add all sides. In the USA "yard" is used for the whole garden area, and the lawn is the grassy part.
In the corpora
- The same dandelion is a weed on Dad's lawn and a feast for the first bees of spring.
- Round a bend they see Toad Hall: a grand old red-brick house with lawns down to the water.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «lawn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.