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Meanings of turf in English

Spanish
césped

Surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots.

        césped
        Usage of turf in English
        1
        This means importers must seek immediately available stocks on their own turf.
        Reuters
        2
        Daily fantasy sports companies are now looking to protect their home turf.
        Reuters
        3
        A budding crisis is not the time for turf wars or finger-pointing.
        Wired
        4
        Sometimes a fight, sometimes a turf war-sometimes , Idon'twant to know.
        Frozen Heat
        5
        The long-lived summer days dried and warmed the turf in the meadows.
        The Story of My Heart: An Autobiography
        6
        On the far bank, the springing turf was strewn with Russian bodies.
        The forgotten soldier
        7
        In Attack the Block, tough London youths defend their turf from aliens.
        Wired
        8
        I have the sea legs of a potato; turf over surf, please.
        The Irish Times
        9
        You will learn that considerable skill goes into the process of turf-cutting.
        The Irish Times
        10
        The Time Machine was left deserted on the turf among the rhododendrons.
        The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
        11
        The New Democrats had been home turf to both Clinton and Gore.
        The new yorker
        12
        An historic moment on this patch of turf: one-nil to the Villa.
        The Guardian
        13
        Gold is not comfortable; jasper would not well replace the green turf.
        Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
        14
        The runner had evidently taken to the silent going of the turf.
        A Splendid Hazard
        15
        The screen was no longer the exclusive turf of the television broadcasters.
        Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offl...
        16
        Let it end on his turf rather than along some lonesome two-lane.
        Keeping christmas
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        Spanish
        césped
        Turf through the time
        Turf across language varieties
        Ireland
        Common
        South Africa
        Common
        Australia
        Common
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