different between lawn vs lawngrass

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

English

Etymology

lawn +? grass

Noun

lawngrass (countable and uncountable, plural lawngrasses)

1. Any grass suitable for planting a lawn.

Alternative forms

• lawn grass