laund
English
Etymology
From Old French launde (“wooded area”) (French lande).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɔːnd/
Noun
laund (plural launds)
- (archaic) A grassy plain or pasture, especially surrounded by woodland; a glade.
- late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer:
- In a laund upon an hill of flowers.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part III, 3:1:
- Through this laund anon the deer will come.
- 1954, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers:
- About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones,
- 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
- Odon was known to be resting, after completing his motion picture, at the villa of an old American friend, Joseph S. Lavender (the name hails from the laundry, not from the laund).
- late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer:
Translations
grassy plain or pasture
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Anagrams
- Lunda, dunal, ulnad
Middle English
Noun
laund
- Alternative form of lond
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond, from Proto-Germanic *landą.
Noun
laund (plural launds)
- land