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  bowling green

  noun

  a level, closely mowed green for lawn bowling.
• Bowling Green
  Bowling Green

  noun

  a city in S Kentucky.

bowling green

¹ American  

noun

1. a level, closely mowed green for lawn bowling.

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Bowling Green ² American  

noun

1. a city in S Kentucky.

2. a city in NW Ohio.

3. a small open area near the S tip of Manhattan in New York City, at the foot of Broadway.

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bowling green British  

noun

1. an area of closely mown turf on which the game of bowls is played

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Etymology

Origin of bowling green

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

Fillongley Provincial Park was an early-20th-century private estate, whose former bowling green is now a wildflower meadow ringed by imported deciduous trees.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Previously, he'd attempted to make his garden resemble a bowling green, he says, before recognising that this attitude created something of a "biodiversity desert".

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2022

The ball fizzed along the turf with a trajectory and precision usually seen on the bowling green – except this was played at defence-splitting speed.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2019

The bowling green is no longer there, but Bowling Green Street is.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2016

“On Monday night, about five minutes past ten, I met Kitty Thwaites, by appointment, at the wicket gate which opens into the garden from the bowling green of the ‘Black Lion Hotel,’ Elmsdale.

From The Revellers by Tracy, Louis