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prairie

noun

ˈprer-ē

Definition of prairie

as in steppe

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country you can see for miles in every direction on the prairie

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Recent Examples of prairie Within the 558,000 acres are nine primary ecosystems ranging from alpine tundra to pinyon-juniper forest to shortgrass prairie. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2026 The show features the prairie and gardens of the museum and growers of historic varieties of produce. — Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 24 Aug. 2026 In place of herds of bison thundering across the prairie, there were piles of bones a story high and as much as a hundred feet long. — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026 The route passes through diverse landscapes, including forests, prairies, lakes, and the Rocky Mountains, with stops in cities like Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, and Jasper. — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prairie

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Noun

Kim, Ryzhikov and Zubritsky returned to Earth in December, touching down in their Soyuz on the steppe of Kazakhstan .

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026
The desire to see Russia as singularly the product of its steppe heritage ends up distorting and simplifying this history.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of steppe

Noun

The mission includes prairies, plains, and mountains, where helicopters need to fly over remote areas at any time of day.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
Pleasure-seekers would travel by train to open prairies and plains to watch decommissioned locomotives crash into each other.

— Caitlín Doherty, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of plain

Noun

Set in British Columbia’s Thompson Valley, the city is surrounded by rolling hills, rivers, and grasslands—a noticeable change from the coastal forests seen earlier in the day.

— Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2026
Today, the 558,000-acre reserve works to rehabilitate forests, grasslands, streams, and former mining areas while restoring native wildlife.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of grassland

Noun

The center of the activities was a grove, within a ring of trees, considered to be one of the oldest oak savannas in the state.

— Gregory Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
With a glorious mane of glowing purple gas and dust, the Lion Nebula sparkles on the cosmic savanna in this new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of savanna

Noun

Hundreds, thousands of solar panels are distributed like macropixels among ravines, pampas, slopes, and wherever there’s room for them.

— Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
Participants travel by horseback to South American landscapes few people ever reach, from vast valleys and sweeping pampas to ancient lenga forests and high plateaus populated with condors.

— Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 6 June 2026

Definition of pampa

Noun

As evening fell and guests sipped drinks and ate hors d’oeuvres, John Ternus slipped into the Observatory building, an event space embedded into a meadow with a large oval window that looks out toward Apple’s main building.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
In September, aspens begin turning gold in places such as the Bear Lake Road Corridor, while male elk bugle and gather harems in meadows around Moraine Park and nearby Estes Park.

— Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of meadow

Noun

Then the curse of the fathers found me — slow at first, like a rumor rolling over the veld, then sudden, like a snare snapping shut on bone.

— Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
The Rovos line in all its splendor—a vision of green and white carriages that draws the eye across the yellow veld—owes its existence to the foresight of South African Rohan Vos, who, back in 1989, took the business from unlikely dream to realization.

— J.R. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2023

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