Definitions

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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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

But this time, Thapa has chosen to run from Sarlahi, mainly a farming district southeast of the capital, on the plains bordering India.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

In political terms, the Hamilton pamphlet was fully as fatal, and perhaps suicidal, as his subsequent decision to face Aaron Burr on the plains of Weehawken.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis