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n. (plural of meadow English)

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Meadows is a medieval English surname. Commonly recorded alternative spellings are Medows, Meddowes and Medewes.

The name is topographical in origin, indicating someone who lived near grassland, and derives from the pre-7th century word for meadow "maed", or Middle English "mede".

Notable people with the surname include:

  • Abram Henson Meadows (1859-1932), American showman
  • Audrey Meadows (1922-1996), American actress
  • Austin Meadows (born 1995), American baseball player
  • Bernard Meadows (1915-2005), British sculptor
  • Brian Meadows (born 1975), American baseball player
  • Charles Medows (1737-1816), British nobleman & naval officer
  • Clarence W. Meadows (1904-1961), American Attourney General
  • Daniel Meadows (born 1952), British photographer
  • Dennis Meadows (born 1942), American scientist
  • Dennis Meadows (politician) (born 1966), Jamaican Senator
  • Donella Meadows (1941-2001), American environmental scientist
  • Earle Meadows (1913-1992), American pole-vaulter
  • Frederick Meadows (active 1908), Canadian athlete
  • Gavin Meadows (born 1977), British swimmer
  • Ian Meadows (born 1983), Australian actor & writer
  • Isabel Meadows (1846-1939), American native linguist
  • Jason Meadows (born 1971), American musician
  • Jayne Meadows (1919-2015), American actress
  • James Meadows (disambiguation page), several individuals
  • James Joseph Meadows (1835-1914), English missionary
  • John Meadows (disambiguation page), several individuals
  • Johnny Meadows (1880-1974), Australian footballer
  • Joyce Meadows (born 1933), Canadian actress
  • Kenny Meadows (1790-1874), British illustrator & caricaturist
  • Kristen Meadows (born 1957), American TV actress
  • Louie Meadows (born 1961), American baseball player
  • Mark Meadows (disambiguation page), several individuals
  • Marion Meadows, American jazz musician
  • Matthew Meadows (born 1938), American politician
  • Michael Meadows (born 1987), English racing driver
  • Miles Meadows, Canadian actor & singer
  • Peter S. Meadows, British political scientist
  • Punky Meadows (born 1950), American guitarist
  • Richard J. Meadows (1931-1995), American soldier
  • Rob Meadows (born 1976), American internet entrepreneur
  • Roy Meadow (born 1933), British paediatrician
  • Shane Meadows (born 1972), British film director
  • Sidney Meadows (c.1699-1792), British Member of Parliament
  • Stanley Meadows (born 1931), British actor
  • Stephen Meadows (born 1950), American actor & architect
  • Susannah Meadows, American journalist
  • Tim Meadows (born 1961), American actor & comedian
  • Travis Meadows, American country musician
  • William Meadows (1833-1920), Anglo-American agriculturist & politician

Usage examples of "meadows".

And how did you find out so quickly about this Meadows woman being her sister?

Reg added his own quota of observation and conclusion, Frances Meadows sat up very straight in her chair.

Colin Meadows had been friendly with Helen, whom he saw daily in the Clements office.

But on the whole neither of the Coke families are particular friends of the Meadows now.

The upshot of this visit was that Bradley gave the letter, fastened up by now, with the map inside, to Colin Meadows to post.

Bradley had indeed told him that the Meadows knew the contents of the letter.

She pointed to a vista of meadows and trees falling toward a green valley with mountains stretching behind them all.

They bad passed a few outlying houses, strung along the road, separated by meadows and small clumps of trees.

Behind them, the meadows had vanished and the mountains of Finstersee were lost in the night.

VINCENT VAN GOGH One The Reverend Doctor John Tinker Meadows stood silent and motionless at the pulpit of the great Tabernacle of the Eternal Church of the Believer, staring at the stained-glass window at the far end of the building, listening to the murmur and rustle of the enormous congregation as the sounds slowly diminished.

The choir of fifty young women, the Meadows Angels, was a constant discipline problem.

But the Reverend Mary Margaret Meadows exerted an iron control which kept disorder at a minimum.

John Tinker Meadows knew that many in the congregation were seeing the service in person for the first time, after years of faithful membership and television viewing.

To them the thrill of being in the same space, breathing the same air, as the famous elderly Reverend Matthew Meadows and his two talented children was only slightly dimmed by their being such tiny figures, so far away.

John Tinker Meadows asked in a half-whisper that carried to the remote corners of the Tabernacle.