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# lawn

«lawn» in Mova's school dictionary: **An area of short, neat grass, usually in a garden or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a lawn, lawns)

### meaning for a pupil

An area of short, neat grass, usually in a garden or park, that is cut regularly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, people mow the lawn with a lawnmower, which is dangerous: children should keep away when it is running and never touch the blades. Lawns need water, sun and cutting. In science, a lawn is a habitat for worms, insects and birds; daisies and clover often grow in lawns. In maths, lawns appear in area and perimeter problems: a rectangular lawn 8 m by 5 m has an area of 40 square metres. Phrases: "mow the lawn", "keep off the lawn", "lawnmower", "front/back lawn".

### examples

- Dad mows the lawn every Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/#x1)
- Please keep off the lawn; it has just been seeded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/#x2)
- We played croquet on the lawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/#x3)
- The lawn is 10 metres long and 6 metres wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/#x4)
- Blackbirds pull worms out of the lawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/#x5)
- Stay away from the lawnmower while it is running. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/#x6)
- The lawn turned brown in the dry summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/#x7)
- Daisies were growing all over the lawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/#x8)
- The animal was fiery and spirited; they galloped round the lawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/#x9)

### note

Countable: a lawn, lawns. Spelling: aw, as in "saw". In maths, "area of the lawn" = length × width (square units), and "fence around the lawn" = perimeter = add all sides. In the USA "yard" is used for the whole garden area, and the lawn is the grassy part.

### In the corpora

- [The same dandelion is a weed on Dad's lawn and a feast for the first bees of spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/1/)
- [Round a bend they see Toad Hall: a grand old red-brick house with lawns down to the water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lawn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lawn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.