often attributive
: land that is covered or mostly covered with grass
wildflowers blooming in the meadow
especially
: a tract of moist low-lying usually level grassland
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According to locals, the Tschikof family home was a large, yellow farmhouse, with a barn out back and, beyond that, a meadow dotted with mature trees.
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Simon Akam, Vanity Fair, 2 Apr. 2026
Even if the raw materials for that dye were from a meadow, the colorant itself, in its liquid gold form, was carefully, lovingly synthesized.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
Nuccio took a roll of film into a meadow and placed two thrift store chairs across from each other.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
California’s snowpack is supposed to reach its peak April 1, so state surveyors held their final Sierra snow survey of the year in a meadow near Lake Tahoe.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
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Simon Akam, Vanity Fair, 2 Apr. 2026
Even if the raw materials for that dye were from a meadow, the colorant itself, in its liquid gold form, was carefully, lovingly synthesized.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
Nuccio took a roll of film into a meadow and placed two thrift store chairs across from each other.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
California’s snowpack is supposed to reach its peak April 1, so state surveyors held their final Sierra snow survey of the year in a meadow near Lake Tahoe.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
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“Meadow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meadow. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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meadow
noun
mead·ow
ˈmed-ō 
: an area of moist low usually level grassland
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