plain

plain

noun

Definition of PLAIN

1

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country <the first settlers in that area lived on the vast plains in lonely log cabins>

Synonyms campo, champaign, down(s), grassland, heath, lea (or ley), llano, moor, pampa, prairie, savanna (also savannah), steppe, tundra, veld (or veldt)

Related Words field, meadow; floodplain; bottom, bottomland, flat, lowland; plateau, table, tableland, upland

2

a wide space or area <the vast plains of snow-covered earth that seemed to stretch endlessly>

Synonyms breadth, distance, expansion, extent, field, length, plain, reach, sheet, spread, stretch, waste

Related Words domain, sphere, territory; compass, range, scope, sweep; gamut, scale, spectrum; depth, emptiness, void; extension, latitude, span; amplitude, immensity, magnitude