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steppe

[ step ]

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noun

an extensive plain, especially one without trees.
The Steppes,
1. Also called Eurasian Steppe,. the vast grasslands stretching from Asia to Eastern Europe, bounded on the north by European and Asian Russia and Siberia.
2. Kirghiz Steppe.

steppe

/ stɛp /

See pampas, prairie
often plural an extensive grassy plain usually without trees Compare prairie pampas

steppe

/ stĕp /

A vast, semiarid grassland, as found in southeast Europe, Siberia, and central North America.

Origin of steppe¹

First recorded in 1665–75; from Russian step' or Ukrainian step; further origin uncertain

Origin of steppe¹

C17: from Old Russian step lowland

Mentally, the man of the steppe and the desert is to-day little advanced beyond his predecessors of thousands of years ago.

He dreamed he was on a bare steppe, strewn with big stones, under a lowering sky.

A man traveling alone across the steppe, may be easily guessed to be a courier of the Czar.

Half an hour after the berlin was left far behind, looking only a speck on the horizon of the steppe.

She knows the steppe, and would have no fear in just taking her staff and going down the banks of the Irtych.

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