gowan

American  

[gou-uhn] / ˈgaʊ ən /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. any of various yellow or white field flowers, especially the English daisy.

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gowan British  

/ ˈɡaʊən /

noun

1. any of various yellow or white flowers growing in fields, esp the common daisy

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Other Word Forms

• gowaned adjective
• gowany adjective

Etymology

Origin of gowan

1560–70; earlier gollan < Old Norse gollinn golden

Example Sentences

The gowan glitters on the sward, The lav'rock's in the sky, And collie on my plaid keeps ward, And time is passing by.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

The commoners of earth and air were dear to him; and the flower beside his path, the gowan wet with dew, was precious in his eyes.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 by Warner, Charles Dudley

And then the Scotch! cropping out everywhere as blithe, and expressive, and unexpected as a gowan or sweet-briar rose, with an  occasional thistle, sturdy, erect, and bristling with Nemo me.

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

Sweet smells the birk, green grows, green grows the grass, Yellow on Yarrow's bank the gowan; Fair hangs the apple frae the rock, Sweet the wave of Yarrow flowin'!

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)

But as it fell out on last Hallowe'en,   When the Seely Court was ridin' by, The Queen lighted down on a gowan bank,   Nae far frae the tree where I wont to lye.

From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee