Thesaurus results for PRAIRIE

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 Vintage finds, including an antique Swedish farm table, sit alongside custom bronze racks, while a swath of grass has been installed along the length of the shopfront window, nodding to the prairies of Wescoat Pound’s native Midwest. — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 On the ground, bike riders and hikers pass prairie plants and native grasses laden with early fall seed — little blue stem, yellow prairie grass, goldenrod, whorled milkweed, purple cone flower, common milkweed, coreopsis and others. — Susan Degrane, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026 With its setting in the fictional prairie town of Saint-Legal, the film takes inspiration from Ng’s small-town Alberta upbringing. — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026 On Sunday, the American pope celebrated Mass before some 150,000 people — many in wheelchairs — on the prairie next to Lourdes' main basilica. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prairie

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Days are spent hiking and exploring formations that stretch for miles into the rocky steppes.

— Luke Abrahams, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2026
Today, Astana’s skyline can keep up with the best of them, with 21st-century architectural marvels made from concrete, steel, and glass cresting over the country’s endless steppes into the horizon.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of steppe

Noun

The area sits within the Lake Superior clay plain, where the surrounding soil is largely composed of clay, which can make the water murky and obscure objects beneath the surface.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
The men rushed on to the plain, setting more trees ablaze and hurling rocks.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of plain

Noun

Chiricahua is a combination of climates The new national park features varying environments, from a desert landscape and grasslands to deciduous forest and chaparral shrub land to coniferous forest habitats.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026
The park spans roughly 12,000 acres of grasslands, desert scrub, riparian, and pine woodlands, which means there is a huge variety of wildlife and habitat types to see and explore.

— Jamie Spain, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of grassland

Noun

And Marchand learned that the savanna penetrated more deeply into the rainforest in south-central Ivory Coast.

— Thomas J Bassett, The Conversation, 29 Oct. 2026
The logic assumes the human form factor is optimal for a factory floor, but this form factor evolved to run away from lions on the African savanna!

— Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 27 Oct. 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

The Sea Ranch Lodge is just a small part of the much larger 7,000-acre Sea Ranch community, which has grown to encompass 2,224 homes clustered around a series of sunny meadows surrounded by stands of wind-breaking cypress.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026
At a museum preview event, Mia Lehrer, president of Studio-MLA, the landscape architect firm behind the gardens, described looking to California’s mountains, meadows, foothills and valleys for inspiration.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 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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