A plain, field; a piece of meadow land; spec. a portion of unenclosed land under the open-field system: now surviving locally in the proper…

gen. Grassy ground; a grassy spot (now chiefly British regional). Also (chiefly with modifying word) a piece of grassy ground used for a…

Surface of the ground, grassy ground, sward, turf.

A place covered with grass, as opposed to a wood; a bare field, a grassy plain, unenclosed pasture-land, a heath. Of northern origin. In Middle…

Green turf, grass land, greensward.

A turf; also collective turf. Obsolete exc. dialect. Cf. flag, n.2, flake, n.2

Land, esp. farmland, on which grass is sown or is allowed to grow; the condition of such land, esp. in to lay (also put, set, etc.) (down) to grass.

Without qualification: = 2b.

Grass-covered ground; turf; an area of this.

†(a) Scottish grass-land; (b) turf.

= sward, n. 2.

A surface covering.

A stretch of untilled ground; an extent of grass-covered land. Also in generalized sense.

The surface of the ground, esp. when turfy or grass-covered; the sward. Frequently poetic or rhetorical. Also North American, more generally, soil…

= swarth, n.1

Greensward, sward; turf. Also attributive.

= sward, n. 1 2.

Turf collectively, sward.

In Malaysia and Indonesia: an open grassy space, esp. a playing field. Also occasionally: scrub vegetation.