meadow

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n. 草地, 牧场

发音

UK /ˈmɛd.əʊ̯/
CA /ˈmɛd.oʊ̯/
US /ˈmɛd.oʊ̯/
CA /ˈmɛɾoʊ/
US /ˈmɛɾoʊ/
SCOT /ˈmɛd.o̞ː/
AU /ˈmed.əʉ̯/

词形变化

meadows 复数 meadows meadowed meadowing meadows 三单 meadowing 现在分词 meadowed 过去式 meadowed 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

草地；牧场

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A field or pasture; a piece of land either intentionally cultivated with grass or (especially) naturally covered with grass, especially one that is intended to be mown for hay or to be grazed.

    草地

    草甸

    alpine meadows

  2. 2.

    Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

    the salt meadows near Newark Bay

v.
  1. 1.

    To cultivate with grass in order to produce hay.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

hayfield

上位词 1

grassland

相关短语

meadow horsetail meadow muffin meadow horsetails meadow pipit 草地鹨 meadow pipits meadow brown meadow browns meadow vole un. 草原田鼠 [网络] 草地田鼠；草甸田鼠；草原野鼠 meadow saffron 藏红花, 秋水仙 meadow hay Meadow Mari 草原马里语 meadow barley meadow mushroom 洋蘑菇 meadow mushrooms meadow muffins

词源

From Middle English medowe, medewe, medwe (also mede > Modern English mead), from Old English mǣdwe, inflected form of mǣd (see mead), from Proto-Germanic *mēdwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂met- (“to mow, reap”), enlargement of *h₂meh₁-. Related to mead (“meadow”) and to math (“mowed result or area”). More at mow. Cognates Cognate with Yola mead (“meadow”), Saterland Frisian Mäid (“meadow”), West Frisian miede (“meadow”), Dutch made (“hayland, meadow”), German Matte (“meadow”); also Cornish mysi (“to harvest; to mow”), Welsh medi (“to reap”), Latin metō (“to harvest, reap; to cut; to mow”), Ancient Greek ἄμητος (ámētos, “harvest”).

来源：wiktionary