different between gazon vs lawn

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French gazon, from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Old Frankish *waso (“ground, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, damp, wet”). Cognate with German Wasen (“lawn”).

Noun

gazon (plural gazons)

1. One of the pieces of sod used to line or cover parapets and the faces of earthworks.

Anagrams

• Zango, zogan

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French gazon, from Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Frankish *waso (“ground, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *wasô, *wais? (“moisture; ground”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??z?n/
• Hyphenation: ga?zon
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

gazon n (plural gazons, diminutive gazonnetje n)

1. lawn

Related terms

• waas

French

Etymology

From Middle French gazon, from Old French gason, wason (“piece of ground covered with grass, turf”), from Old Frankish *waso (“ground, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *wasô (“moisture; ground”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“moist, damp, wet”). Cognate with German Wasen (“lawn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.z??/

Noun

gazon m (plural gazons)

1. lawn
2. turf; grass

Derived terms

• gazon anglais
• hockey sur gazon
• tondeuse à gazon

Further reading

• “gazon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hungarian

Etymology

gaz +? -on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???zon]
• Hyphenation: ga?zon

Noun

gazon

1. superessive singular of gaz

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French gazon

Noun

gazon

1. grass, turf

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Romanian

Etymology

From French gazon

Noun

gazon n (uncountable)

1. grass

Declension

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French gazon

Noun

gazon

1. grass, turf

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /l?n/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /l?n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Etymology 1

Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *land? (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *land?, both from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land.

Noun

lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)

1. An open space between woods.
2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
3. (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.

Derived terms

• Chapel Lawn
• lawned
• lawn food
• lawn mower

Translations

Etymology 2

Apparently from Laon, a French town known for its linen manufacturing, from Old French Lan, from Latin Laudunum, a Celtic name cognate with Lugdunum.

Noun

lawn (countable and uncountable, plural lawns)

1. (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

     The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe.

   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 144:

     He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief.

2. (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
3. (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
   • 1910, Margaret Hill McCarter, The Price of the Prairie:

     […] she was as the wild yoncopin to the calla lily. Marjie knew how to dress. To-day, shaded by the buggy-top, in her dainty light blue lawn, with the soft pink of her cheeks and her clear white brow and throat, she was a most delicious thing […]

Translations

References

• lawn in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• WLAN, nawl

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lau?n/

Adjective

lawn

1. Soft mutation of llawn.

Adverb

lawn

1. Soft mutation of llawn.

Mutation