单词 | greenway |
释义 | > as lemmasgreenway greenway n. (a) a grassy path or way; (figurative) the pleasant path, the ‘broad way’ (cf. primrose path n.); (b) chiefly U.S. a piece of undeveloped land near an urban area, set aside for recreational use or environmental conservation.In earlier versions of quot. a1300 there appears to have been confusion between the rhyming words. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > covered with verdure greenwayOE green gatec1540 greensward way1703 trace1871 tapis vert1960 OE Bounds (Sawyer 1347) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 308 On þære dic on þa dene þæt andlong dene on þone grenan weg. OE Paris Psalter (1932) cxli. 4 On þyssum grenan wege, þe ic gange on, me oferhydige æghwær setton gearwe grine. lOE Bounds (Sawyer 811) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 655 Of writeles þorne andlang þæs grenan weges to wuda huw on butan þæt hit cymð hut æt beorhtulfes treowe. a1300 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Jesus Oxf.) l. 335 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 70 Lete we þeo brode stret and þene wey grene..Go we þene narewe wey, þene wey so schene [a1200 Trin. Cambr. [L]ate we þe brode strate and þane weg bene..Go we þane narewe pað and þene wei grene]. c1300 Holy Cross (Laud) l. 179 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 6 Ȝwane þou comest to þe heued of þis valeie, a grene wei þov schalt wiende, Þat gez euene riȝt puyr est, and to parays gez þat on ende. c1325 in M. Gelling & D. M. Stenton Place-names Oxfordshire (1953) I. 201 Seynt Edburghes grene wey. a1400 Ancrene Riwle (Pepys) (1976) 92 Swyche men & wymmen..leden þe folk in a grene waye toward helle, For grene waie is soft and fair, & so ben her wordes. c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 139 (MED) Þe forsaide Abbot..had A Grene waye fro the towne of ledewell unto þe forsaide felde. 1645 J. Milton Sonnet ix, in Poems 50 Lady that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hast shun'd the broad way and the green. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Green Way, a road over turf between hedges, usually without gates. 1943 Notes & Queries 9 Oct. 234 Wood-riding, green way across a wood. Northants. 1965 Washington Post 8 Apr. f3/2 Preservation of natural form and foliage and clustering of usable land space..in a common green-way at the rear of the development. 1970 Times 26 Aug. 10/3 A plan for turning two railway lines..into greenways for walkers, horseriders, and cyclists. 1999 Nature Conservancy Sept. 30/2 The Berkeley Triangle Project will transfer acreage to several state agencies to create a 10,000-acre greenway that will include protected habitat for threatened northern pine snakes. < as lemmas |
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