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Plains

//pleɪnz// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Great Plains region of North America. US, with-definite-article
  2. 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. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in California.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Sumter County, Georgia.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Meade County, Kansas.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Forsyth Township, Marquette County, Michigan.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Sanders County, Montana.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Borden County, Texas.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A town, the county seat of Yoakum County, Texas.
  6. 11
    A village in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7966).
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of plain form-of, plural
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of plain form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

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