Definition of "meadow"

meadow

/ˈmɛd.əʊ/

noun
plural meadows
1. A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
  Quotations
  But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶ […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, […].
  1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […]
  […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […]
  1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict
  Our part of the veranda did not hang over the gorge, but edged the meadow where half a dozen large and sleek horses had stopped grazing to join us.
  1956, Delano Ames, chapter 7, in Crime out of Mind
2. Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
  Quotations
  European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
  2013 January, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59