Surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots.

synoniemen: greensward, sod, sward.

Roget 344: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country^†; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold^†, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau etc. (level) 213; campagna^†; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla [U.S.], playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega [Sp.].    meadow, mead, haugh^†, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat^†, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan^†, agostadero^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 367: vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.    plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.    annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.    timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst^†, frith^†, holt, weald^†, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage^†, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk^†, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.]; arboretum etc. 371.    bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary^†; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva^†, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria^†, banyan; blow, blowth^†; floret^†, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.    foliage, branch, bough, ramage^†, stem, tigella^†; spray etc. 51; leaf.    flower, blossom, bine^†; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 388: fuel, firing, combustible.    [solid fuels] coal, wallsend^†, anthracite, culm^†, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder etc. (products of combustion) 384; ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou^†, bavin^†; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge [U.S.]; solid fueled rocket.    [fuels for candles and lamps] wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil; lamp oil, whale oil.    [liquid fuels] oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline, nitromethane, petrol, gas, juice [Coll.], gasohol, alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil, number 2 oil, number 4 oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox.    [gaseous fuels] natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane, butane, hydrogen.    brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve^†, vesuvian, vesta^†, fusee, locofoco^†; linstock^†.    candle etc. (luminary) 423; oil etc. (grease) 356.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 720: contention, strife; contest, contestation^†; struggle; belligerency; opposition etc. 708.    controversy, polemics; debate etc. (discussion) 476; war of words, logomachy^†, litigation; paper war; high words etc. (quarrel) 713; sparring etc. v.. competition, rivalry; corrivalry^†, corrivalship^†, agonism^†, concours^†, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy^†, gymkhana^†; boat race, torpids^†.    wrestling, greco-roman wrestling; pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense; spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting; quarterstaff, single stick; gladiatorship^†, gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti^†, sumo; athletics, athletic sports; games of skill etc. 840.    shindy^†; fracas etc. (discord) 713; clash of arms; tussle, scuffle, broil, fray; affray, affrayment^†; velitation^†; colluctation^†, luctation^†; brabble^†, brigue^†, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash^†, bushfighting^†.    free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight.    conflict, skirmish; rencounter^†, encounter; rencontre^†, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting [Mediev.]; tournay^†, list; pitched battle.    death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle, Armageddon^†.    hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war.    naval engagement, naumachia^†, sea fight.    duel, duello [It]; single combat, monomachy^†, satisfaction, passage d'armes [Fr.], passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting, digladiation^†; deeds of arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms etc. (warfare) 722.    pugnacity; combativeness etc. adj.; bone of contention etc. 713.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 728: arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards etc. (playhouse) 599; amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso [Sp.], turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard^†, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars^†; campus [U.S.].    boxing ring, canvas.    theater of war, seat of war; battle-field, battle-ground; field of battle, field of slaughter; Aceldama^†, camp; the enemy's camp; trusting place etc. (place of meeting) 74.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: gazon, grasveld, graszode, plag, zode
Pools: darń, darnina

The territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own.

Nederlands: zoden, turf

Range of jurisdiction or influence.

Nederlands: grasmat, voetbalveld

Cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots.