How do you use Lammas in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Lammas meaning
- A former festival held on 1st August celebrating the harvest.
- 1st August, a quarter day.
- A modern pagan festival celebrated in early August celebrating the start of the grain harvest.
Synonyms of Lammas
Using Lammas
- The main meaning on this page is: A former festival held on 1st August celebrating the harvest. | 1st August, a quarter day. | A modern pagan festival celebrated in early August celebrating the start of the grain harvest.
- Useful related words include: lammas day, august 1, quarter day.
- In the example corpus, lammas often appears in combinations such as: the lammas.
Context around Lammas
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 1 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lammas
- In this selection, "lammas" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ould, red, encompassing, leaves, growth and fair stand out and add context to how "lammas" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the lammas gardens area and area encompassing lammas land sheep. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lammas" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lammas
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They meet at The Lammas. (5 words)
The area encompassing Lammas Land, Sheep's Green, and Coe Fen is a particular favourite. (15 words)
The order prevents her from entering St Ives, Huntingdon bus station at any time and the Lammas Gardens area of Huntingdon. (21 words)
Lammas leaves or Lammas growth refers to a second crop of leaves produced in high summer by some species of trees in temperate countries to replace those lost to insect damage. (31 words)
Crowd descended on Ballycastle for a jam-packed weekend of activities ahead of the traditional Ould Lammas Fair days on the last Monday and Tuesday of August. (27 words)
Head straight to the shelves at the back, where you’ll find bread made from local and ancient grains such as Red Lammas, April Bearded and Einkorn. (27 words)
Example sentences (7)
Lammas leaves or Lammas growth refers to a second crop of leaves produced in high summer by some species of trees in temperate countries to replace those lost to insect damage.
Crowd descended on Ballycastle for a jam-packed weekend of activities ahead of the traditional Ould Lammas Fair days on the last Monday and Tuesday of August.
Head straight to the shelves at the back, where you’ll find bread made from local and ancient grains such as Red Lammas, April Bearded and Einkorn.
The order prevents her from entering St Ives, Huntingdon bus station at any time and the Lammas Gardens area of Huntingdon.
The area encompassing Lammas Land, Sheep's Green, and Coe Fen is a particular favourite.
Staines Lammas were champions of the Combined Counties League Division One in the 2007–08 season and additionally run various age group teams.
They meet at The Lammas.
Common combinations with lammas
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: