PLATEAU Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

plateau 1 of 2

noun

pla-ˈtō

Definition of plateau

as in mesa

a broad flat area of elevated land Native Americans have inhabited the plateau for centuries

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verb

as in to stabilize

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stabilize

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Recent Examples of plateau

Noun

Perched on the edge of a rocky plateau above the village, its sleek, ultra-modern rooms open onto balconies with views of the rooftops below and the Matterhorn beyond. — Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026 The backside looks like a 1960s-era control panel, complete with a slightly bulbous, transparent camera plateau protecting the Glyph matrix from the elements. — Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026

Verb

While those numbers may plateau or slightly decline this year, the overall trend points upward. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 May 2026 In a landscape that keeps evolving, that foundation is what separates channels that plateau from channels that break through. — Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for plateau

Recent Examples of Synonyms for plateau

Noun

Beginning in the late 1960s, artists abandoned galleries in favour of deserts, salt flats, mesas, and remote terrain, using these surroundings as both setting and material.

— Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026
Together, Groves and Oppenheimer chose an isolated mesa near Los Alamos, New Mexico, where a secret laboratory—and eventually a secret city—would be built to design the world's first atomic bomb.

— Rebecca Coffey, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of mesa

Verb

Such surplus funds, when accumulated over good years, provide great flexibility to stabilize after a catastrophic year without huge penalties, or simply create reserve funds.

— Kumar Rupesh, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
But with city leaders praying for tax revenues to stabilize after a turbulent few years, Councilmember Charlene Wang hopes to effectively establish a backup plan for a slow-to-recover downtown economy.

— Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 19 July 2026

Definition of stabilize

Noun

Smith Galer writes powerfully about the experiences of Kichwa speakers in the Ecuadorian highlands.

— Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Over thousands of years, Martian winds have sculpted this volcanic sand into dunes that now ripple through the floor of Kaiser Crater, a 129-mile-wide (207-kilometer-wide) impact basin in the planet's southern highlands.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of highland

Noun

Only a depression in the ground remains at the Ingalls Dugout Site, but eagle-eyed visitors can still spot the spring, tablelands, thickets of plum trees, and other landmarksr described in the book of the same name.

— Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 22 June 2026
Pedro Cervantes painted jewellike vistas of New Mexico’s tablelands.

— John P. Murphy, ARTnews.com, 5 Apr. 2026

Definition of tableland

Noun

Built in the late 19 th century to transport the altiplano’s abundant metals and minerals, the railway line once ran from Bolivia’s de facto capital La Paz to the Pacific port of Antofagasta in Chile.

— The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
Tiwanaku communities first emerged in an altiplano, or high plain, of the Andes called the Titicaca Basin, named after Lake Titicaca.

— Gina Park, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025

Definition of altiplano

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