lawn

The word “lawn” means an area of ground, usually next to a house, covered with closely cut grass. In plain terms, a patch of mown grass, or a fine cotton/linen cloth.

“Lawn” is pronounced lawn (/lɔn/ in IPA).

Here is “lawn” used in a sentence: “He spends every Saturday mowing the lawn.”

“Lawn” is a noun.

The word “lawn” comes from Old French. From early Modern English laune, an alteration of laund ("glade"), from Old French lande ("heath, moor").

“Lawn” is a fairly common word in modern English, usually learned at around the B2 level.

“Lawn” has 2 distinct senses listed in this dictionary. The most common is: an area of ground, usually next to a house, covered with closely cut grass.

A lawn is an area of ground covered with closely cut grass, usually next to a house, while a garden is a cultivated area that may contain flowers, vegetables, shrubs, or trees. In British English, "garden" often refers to the whole enclosed area around a house, and the lawn is just the grassy part of it.

In American English, a yard is the entire outdoor area around a house, whether it is grassed, paved, or bare. A lawn is specifically the part covered with closely mown grass, so a yard can contain a lawn but the two words are not interchangeable.

Besides the familiar grass sense, lawn is also a fine, lightweight woven fabric made from cotton or linen. It most often appears in the collocation "cotton lawn," and this fabric sense is entirely separate in meaning from the grass sense.

Both are correct and widely used. "Mow the lawn" is the most idiomatic collocation for trimming an area of closely cut grass with a mower, while "cut the grass" is a slightly more general everyday alternative; "mow the grass" also occurs, though "cut the lawn" is less common.