lawn
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Is lawn a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of lawn?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (England, historical or regional) An open space between woods.Englandcountablehistoricalregionaluncountable
2. (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To furnish with a lawn.Examples: "By opening all the arches of the several apartments […], by lawning the area within, and by a judicious use of ivy where any blank spaces require to be broken, or any deformities concealed, this might be made a beautiful and singular scene; […]"transitive
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.Examples: "Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn."; "The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death robe."; "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."uncountable
2. (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.countablein-pluraluncountable
3. (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.Examples: "[…] 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 […]"countableobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary