A small, homogeneous population with a precious culture—a Hopi village on a mesa top in America, e.g.—may be unable to tolerate any outsider for long.
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Mesa
Synonyms for "mesa" (63 found)
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19 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- плато noun (flat area of land)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 臺地 /台地 noun (flat area of land)
Dutch
1 entries- tafelberg noun (flat area of land)
Esperanto
1 entries- altebenaĵo noun (flat area of land)
Finnish
2 entries- pöytävuori noun (flat area of land)
- ylätasanko noun (flat area of land)
German
1 entries- Tafelberg noun (flat area of land)
Hebrew
1 entries- הַר שֻׁלְחָן noun (flat area of land)
Hungarian
1 entries- fennsík noun (flat area of land)
Indonesian
1 entries- mesa noun (flat area of land)
Italian
1 entries- altopiano noun (flat area of land)
Navajo
1 entries- dah azką́ noun (flat area of land)
Norwegian
1 entries- platå noun (flat area of land)
Russian
1 entries- столова́я гора́ noun (flat area of land)
Spanish
1 entries- mesa noun (flat area of land)
Swedish
1 entries- taffelberg noun (flat area of land)
Tagalog
1 entries- talampas noun (flat area of land)
Turkish
1 entries- masa dağı noun (flat area of land)
Vietnamese
1 entries- núi mặt bàn noun (flat area of land)
Sample sentences
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A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.
Source: wiktionary
Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.
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Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].
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