Definitions for mown

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Spelling: [mohn]

IPA: /moʊn/

Mown is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in mown (mnow).

Definitions for mown

noun

1. the place in a barn where hay, sheaves of grain, etc., are stored.
2. a heap or pile of hay or of sheaves of grain in a barn.
3. a wry or derisive grimace.

verb

1. a past participle of mow1 .

Verb phrases

1. mow down, to destroy or kill indiscriminately or in great numbers, as troops in battle. to defeat, overwhelm, or overcome: to knock down.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut down (grass, grain, etc.) with a scythe or a machine.
2. to cut grass, grain, etc., from:
3. Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. to store (hay) in a barn.

verb (used without object)

1. to cut down grass, grain, etc.
2. to make mows, mouths, or grimaces.

Origin of mown

before 900; Middle English mowen, Old English māwan; cognate with German mähen

Examples for mown

The sward had recently been mown, but the daisies dotted it as thickly as stars.

She looked at the sickle-blades and shuddered, knowing that Time had mown her down at last.

In the mean while, thick and fast was mown the flower of the Christian army.

Whole streets of houses were mown down by the flaming scythe.

Heads and limbs will fall, mown down like ripe ears at the reaping!

The horses were mown down, now the blades were descending over her.

The song of the nightingale ceases about the time that the grass is mown.

The almshouses, were rebuilt in 1828, when perhaps the grass round them was mown also.

Unable to get within range themselves, they were mown down in lines.

Weeds that are but mown, come up afterwards only the more vigorously.