Meaning & use
lush meadows
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Meanings
nounplural
Fields of grass that are thick, healthy, and bright green, often with many wildflowers.
Grammar: Always plural in this phrase; for one field say 'a lush meadow'.
Patterns
- lush meadows full of something
- across the lush meadows
- surrounded by lush meadows
The path led through lush meadows dotted with yellow buttercups.
In spring the valley turns into a patchwork of lush meadows.
Cattle grazed peacefully on the lush meadows beside the river.
nounpluralfigurative
An attractive, rich-looking area of grassland, used figuratively in descriptions or advertising.
Grammar: Figurative use is common in travel writing: 'lush meadows' suggests beauty and abundance.
Patterns
- advertised as lush meadows
- a landscape of lush meadows
The brochure promised lush meadows and clear mountain streams.
Photographers come from all over to capture the lush meadows in the early morning light.
Common combinations
- lush green meadows
- We walked for hours across lush green meadows.
- lush meadows and wildflowers
- The reserve protects lush meadows and wildflowers.
- rolling lush meadows
- The farm sits among rolling lush meadows.
- graze on lush meadows
- Sheep graze on lush meadows all summer.
Synonyms and how they differ
- green pastures
- Similar idea, but 'pastures' usually means land used for grazing rather than wild grassland.
- verdant fields
- More literary and formal; 'lush meadows' is warmer and more common in everyday description.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: lush meadows or lush meadows vs. lush meadow?
lush meadows vs lush meadows vs. lush meadow
Use the plural for a wide area or several fields, and the singular for one field: 'a lush meadow by the lake'.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'lush meadows' most naturally?
Choose one answer.
'Lush meadows' is plural, so it needs no article. Option B wrongly adds 'a' before a plural noun, option C drops the plural -s, and option D adds the unnecessary noun 'field' after 'meadows'.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “lush meadows”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.