Thesaurus results for CHAMPAIGNS

champaigns

noun

plural of champaign

as in plains

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country after days of trudging through dense forest, the explorers came upon a vast champaign

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The plains were a far smoother ride, and both our joints and the Jeep’s suspension settled down to coast over kilometres of unbroken grassland.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
The fertile plains of Punjab are a world apart from the Appalachian Mountains, to which country music traces its roots.

— Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of plains

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Over his shoulder was an enormous portrait of the hatchet-wielding temperance crusader Carrie Nation, an icon of resistance to the excesses of the first Gilded Age, when similar discontent had roiled the prairies.

— Kyle Paoletta, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Yet the black-footed ferret remains the face of conservation of the prairies.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of prairies

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The two tortoises on board were, appropriately, Russian steppes tortoises, NASA has said.

— Tariq Malik, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Historical legacy is not destiny, and Russia’s excesses cannot be blamed solely on its ties to the political culture of the steppes.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of steppes

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More than 85% of the world’s wetlands are gone, according to researchers, and North America has already lost more than half its grasslands.

— Story Hinckley, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2026
Up to a million wild black-footed ferrets once bounded in the grasslands from Canada to Mexico, between Arizona and Kansas.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026

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