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# meadow

«meadow» in Mova's school dictionary: **a field of grass and wild flowers, often used for hay or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a meadow, meadows)

### meaning for a pupil

A meadow is a field of grass and wild flowers, often used for hay or grazing animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meadow/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons, meadows are habitats full of flowers, bees, butterflies, grasshoppers and field mice; wildflower meadows help pollinators. In stories and poems meadows are peaceful places for picnics and playing. Phrases: «a wildflower meadow», «a water meadow», «across the meadow», «meadow flowers».

### examples

- We had a picnic in the meadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meadow/#x1)
- The meadow was full of buttercups and daisies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meadow/#x2)
- Bees buzzed over the wildflower meadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meadow/#x3)
- Cows were grazing in the meadow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meadow/#x4)
- The path went across the meadow to the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meadow/#x5)
- Our school planted a small meadow for insects. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meadow/#x6)
- Butterflies love sunny meadows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meadow/#x7)
- The farmer cuts the meadow for hay in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meadow/#x8)
- Moorland and meadow are covered with ice and snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/meadow/#x9)

### note

Countable: meadows. Pronounced MED-oh. A meadow is mostly grass and flowers, not crops; a «field» can be for crops or animals. Safety: tall meadow grass can hide ticks — check your skin after walking through it.

### In the corpora

- [No birds sing, everything is strangely still, and the roses and meadow-sweet look brighter than ever before.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/50-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper/2/)
- [A girl in Montana on a family hike sees a black bear across a meadow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/6/)
- [And the sea-coast shall be pastures, even meadows for shepherds, and folds for flocks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEP.24/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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