different between meadow vs parkland

English

Etymology

From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English m?dwe, inflected form of m?d (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *m?dw? (compare West Frisian miede, dialectal Dutch made, dialectal German Matte (“mountain pasture”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?met- (“to mow, reap”) (compare Welsh medi, Latin metere, Ancient Greek ?????? (ám?tos, “reaping”)), enlargement of *h?meh?-. More at mow.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?do?/
• Rhymes: -?d??
• Hyphenation: mead?ow

Noun

meadow (plural meadows)

1. A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

Synonyms

• lea/leigh

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

park +? land

Noun

parkland (plural parklands)

1. Land suitable for use as a park.
2. (Canada, US) A landscape characterized by a mixture of treed groves and open grasslands, akin to a Eurasian forest steppe

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