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plains

[pleyn]

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adjective

clear or distinct to the eye or ear: a plain trail to the river; to stand in plain view.

clear to the mind; evident, manifest, or obvious: to make one's meaning plain.

conveying the meaning clearly and simply; easily understood: plain talk.

downright; sheer; utter; self-evident: plain folly; plain stupidity.

free from ambiguity or evasion; candid; outspoken: the plain truth of the matter.

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without special pretensions, superiority, elegance, etc.; ordinary: plain people.

not beautiful; physically unattractive or undistinguished: a plain face.

without intricacies or difficulties.

ordinary, simple, or unostentatious: Although she was a duchess, her manners were attractively plain.

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with little or no embellishment, decoration, or enhancing elaboration: a plain blue suit.

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without a pattern, figure, or device: a plain fabric.

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not rich, highly seasoned, or elaborately prepared, as food: a plain diet.

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flat or level: plain country.

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unobstructed, clear, or open, as ground, a space, etc.

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Cards. being other than a face card or a trump.

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adverb

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clearly and simply: He's just plain stupid.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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noun

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an area of land not significantly higher than adjacent areas and with relatively minor differences in elevation, commonly less than 500 feet (150 meters), within the area.

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The Plains. Great Plains.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English (adj., adv., and noun) < Old French (adj. and noun) < Latin plānus flat, level, plānum flat country

Related forms

plain·ly, adverb

plain·ness, noun

Synonyms
1, 2. lucid, understandable, intelligible, unmistakable, apparent, perspicuous. 2, 3. unambiguous, unequivocal, patent, transparent; direct. 5. unreserved, straightforward, blunt, frank, ingenuous, open, sincere. 6. unpretentious. 10. unadorned. See homely.

Antonyms
1. indistinct. 2. obscure. 13. hilly.

Example Sentences

The flat coastal plains of the south give way to valleys, then hills and mountains toward the middle and north.

Firms are proposing ambitious transmission lines across the plains.

It has a mountainous central plateau and coastal plains.

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The flat coastal plains of the south give way to valleys, then hills and mountains toward the middle and north.

Firms are proposing ambitious transmission lines across the plains.

It has a mountainous central plateau and coastal plains.

Jerzy: single hoof would probably be an advantage for a cursorial species of open plains.

Maybe if there were great plains or huge wild animals surrounding this region, or even colorful weavings to sell to tourists.

Farther inland, the dunes transition to low sand plains.

Further west lie giant areas of pasture for cattle and plains of soyabeans.

They were regarded as the premier horse thieves of the plains.

Mine is the wild-type sunflower, native to the plains.

There is strong evidence of floods-and of channels carved by these floods-draining into the northern plains.

Multihued summits-whittled by ancient glaciers into walls and horns-rise abruptly from gently rolling plains.

Open plains and prairies, farmland, and sometimes edges of woods.

The moon's surface is a mottled mix of light soil and dark lava plains called maria.

Farmers in many flood plains plant crops that grow underwater, such as deep water aman rice or jute.

Coastal plains are separated from the rest of the interior by nearby landforms, such as mountains.

There are young volcanic cones that dot the plains around the site.

They seem to get along with antelope well on the flat plains and the elk in the high country.

The plains tribes all spoke different languages but shared a sign language that was understood by all.

They've been regularly observed in the lower third of the state from eastern plains to western border.

Those dark spaces represent thousands of square miles of mountains, mesas and plains occupied by absolutely no one.

The arctic sea ice is composed of vast plains of three- to nine-foot-thick ice that cover the top of the northern hemisphere.

We'd been out intercepting some tornadoes spawned by an incredible supercell out on the plains.

To the east, a one-hour drive takes you through high and low valleys and tropical plains.

Plains and prairies are about expanse, a difficult concept to photograph.

Floods and natural disasters loom at every town hall built on flood plains and watershed regions.

Streams and small rivers run slowly through plains and form swamps.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object) British Dialect.

to complain.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English plei(g)nen < Old French plaign-, stem of plaindre < Latin plangere to beat (the breast, etc.), lament; akin to Greek plḗssein to strike

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World English Dictionary

plains (pleɪnz)

—*pl n*
	chiefly (US) extensive tracts of level or almost level treeless countryside; prairies

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Word Origin & History

plain

"level country," c.1300 (originally in ref. to Salisbury Plain), from O.Fr. plain, from L. planum "level ground, plain," properly neut. of adj. planus "flat, even, level" ((see plane (1)). L. planum was used for "level ground" but much more common was campus. Plains of the

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American Midwest first so called 1684.

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Science Dictionary

plain (plān) Pronunciation Key

An extensive, relatively level area of land. Plains are present on all continents except Antarctica and are most often located in the interior regions. Because they can occur at almost any altitude or latitude, plains can be humid and forested, semiarid and grass-covered, or arid.
A broad, level expanse, such as an area of the sea floor or a lunar mare.

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