bowling green

¹

noun

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

Bowling Green

²

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.

bowling green

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of bowling green¹

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

Paul employed his wife, a deacon in their Bowling Green presbyterian church, for damage control.

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Rather, he organized his own certifying program for ophthalmology based right there in his hometown of Bowling Green.

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I called Rand Paul at his medical office in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Mr. Benton replied that “he could not conceive how hay stacks and corn shocks could walk over this bowling green road.”

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I reached Bowling Green with a force much reduced by the losses sustained in the battle of Perryville and by sickness.

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"I ought to be down at Bowling Green instead of reading Greek stories to you girls," he said rather brusquely.

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They then removed to Bowling Green, Missouri, and for twenty-one years he was a resident of that state.

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Whilst I am worth one, to pay a weeder—thy path from thy door to thy bowling-green shall never be grown up.

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