Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Ground that is green with grass; turf.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Turf green with grass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Turf green with grass.
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- noun Land that is green with
grass .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
Etymologies
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Examples
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That there are not more acres of greensward is regrettable.
Sunday Op/Ed: Don’t Put the Chihuly Museum at Seattle Center « PubliCola 2010
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The greensward is the canvas, the house or some other prominent point is the central figure, the planting completes the composition and adds the color.
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A hurdy-gurdy furnished the music and the greensward was their ballroom floor.
Molly Brown's Orchard Home Nell Speed 1895
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Laid out in the shape of a cross as part of the original federal plan, the greensward is a splendid place to relax or jog (perhaps past politicos and their retinues).
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Laid out in the shape of a cross as part of the original federal plan, the greensward is a splendid place to relax or jog (perhaps past politicos and their retinues).
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The Brooklyn Paper, perhaps searching for a new obsession now that its fixation of yore-Atlantic Yards-is a fait accompli, is continuing its crusade to rescue the animals of Prospect Park from a recent spate of lakeside violence, one that has prompted the paper to dub the greensward's body of water "The Lake of Death." the paper reports that the decomposed body of a dog was fished from the murky waters of the Prospect Park Lake, just the latest in a series of dead animals that have washed up on the shores of the normally bucolic lake:
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The Brooklyn Paper, perhaps searching for a new obsession now that its fixation of yore-Atlantic Yards-is a fait accompli, is continuing its crusade to rescue the animals of Prospect Park from a recent spate of lakeside violence, one that has prompted the paper to dub the greensward's body of water "The Lake of Death." the paper reports that the decomposed body of a dog was fished from the murky waters of the Prospect Park Lake, just the latest in a series of dead animals that have washed up on the shores of the normally bucolic lake:
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The Brooklyn Paper, perhaps searching for a new obsession now that its fixation of yore-Atlantic Yards-is a fait accompli, is continuing its crusade to rescue the animals of Prospect Park from a recent spate of lakeside violence, one that has prompted the paper to dub the greensward's body of water "The Lake of Death." the paper reports that the decomposed body of a dog was fished from the murky waters of the Prospect Park Lake, just the latest in a series of dead animals that have washed up on the shores of the normally bucolic lake:
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As any fan will tell you, the greensward the game is played on, marked with parallel white stripes, is called a gridiron.
Meathead Goldwyn: Lip Smackin' Pigskin Cracklins Meathead Goldwyn 2011
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As any fan will tell you, the greensward the game is played on, marked with parallel white stripes, is called a gridiron.
Meathead Goldwyn: Lip Smackin' Pigskin Cracklins Meathead Goldwyn 2011
bilby commented on the word greensward
"If baseball is, or at least used to be, a languidly paced sport played on an asymmetrical greensward that recalls America’s agrarian past, football is an industrial product of the modern age. Confined to a precisely measured rectangle that mimics the electronic screen, football plays out in staccato bursts of violence, interrupted by commentary and meta-commentary, near-pornographic slow-motion replays and scantily clad young women selling you stuff. Though I’m not sure that the commercials during the Super Bowl, or any lesser football game, really have much to do with consumer products as such. Instead, they’re selling an idea, the idea of the sort of person you must be if you’re watching the game: Funny, alert, sexually alive, a bit self-mocking, surrounded by friends and endlessly loyal to football, to America and to television."
- Andrew O'Hehir, Football's death spiral, salon.com, 3 Feb 2013.
February 5, 2013