Plains
//pleɪnz// name, noun, verb
name, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 plural of plain form-of, plural
Verb
- 1 third-person singular simple present indicative of plain form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Proper Noun
- 1 The Great Plains region of North America. US, with-definite-article
- 2 The lowland regions of India from which colonial administrators and their families relocated to higher-elevation hill stations with cooler climates during the summer months. British, India, with-definite-article
"It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers."
- 3 A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in California.
- 4 A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Sumter County, Georgia.
- 5 A number of places in the United States:; A city in Meade County, Kansas.
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- 6 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Forsyth Township, Marquette County, Michigan.
- 7 A number of places in the United States:; A town in Sanders County, Montana.
- 8 A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
- 9 A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Borden County, Texas.
- 10 A number of places in the United States:; A town, the county seat of Yoakum County, Texas.
- 11 A village in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7966).
Antonyms
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More examples"The air of hills is cooler than that of plains."
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