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- [prair-ee]
- /ˈprɛər i/
- /ˈpreə.ri/
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- [prair-ee]
- /ˈprɛər i/
Definitions of prairie word
- noun prairie a historical novel (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper. 1
- noun prairie meadow 1
- noun prairie flat grassy plain 1
- variable noun prairie A prairie is a large area of flat, grassy land in North America. Prairies have very few trees. 0
- noun prairie a treeless grassy plain of the central US and S Canada 0
- noun prairie a large area of level or slightly rolling grasslands, esp. one in the Mississippi Valley 0
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Origin of prairie
First appearance:
before 1675 One of the 48% oldest English words
1675-85; < French: meadow < Vulgar Latin *prātāria, equivalent to Latin prāt(um) meadow + -āria, feminine of -ārius -ary
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Parts of speech for Prairie
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prairie popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
prairie usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for prairie
noun prairie
- campo — level or undulating savanna country, esp in the uplands of Brazil
- campos — a city in E Brazil, in E Rio de Janeiro state on the Paraíba River. Pop: 388 000 (2005 est)
- champaign — an expanse of open level or gently undulating country
- flatland — a region that lacks appreciable topographic relief.
- grassland — an area, as a prairie, in which the natural vegetation consists largely of perennial grasses, characteristic of subhumid and semiarid climates.
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