plains

NOUN

level land

Synonyms

STRONGEST

expanse field grassland meadow plateau prairie steppe

STRONG

champaign flat heath level moor moorland tundra

WEAK

flatland open country

Example Sentences

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Drawing on Spain's sunny plains, windy hillsides and fast-flowing rivers, the country aims to increase the share of electricity generated by renewables to 81 percent by 2030, up from around 60 percent today.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

The others, with their hot deserts and big-sky plains, seem more obvious: Texas, Arizona and California.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

While studying the familiar dark plains and bright highlands, I somehow overlooked a pattern people have recognized for thousands of years.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

Satellites have photographed the far side before, but the astronauts were the first human eyes to see some parts of the far side's surface and its vast craters and lava plains.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

Three times he whistled; and then faint and far off it seemed to them that they heard the whinny of a horse borne up from the plains upon the eastern wind.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien