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prairie
[ prair-ee ]
noun
- a tract of grassland; meadow.
- (in Florida) a low, sandy tract of grassland often covered with water.
- Southern U.S. wet grassland; marsh.
- (initial capital letter) a steam locomotive having a two-wheeled front truck, six driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.
prairie
/ prâr′ē /
- An extensive area of flat or rolling grassland, especially the large plain of central North America.
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- prairie·like adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prairie1
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Example Sentences
He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie.
One year later and 10 blocks away, my mother came into the world, the granddaughter of those pioneers who had roamed the prairie.
There, abandoned “ghost towns” populate the prairie fields and deserts, serving as a reminder of a not-so-distant past.
Harvey now lives in the central prairie province of Saskatchewan, Canadian news reports say, along with her husband and son.
Because there is always this about the land, about prairie and pond and mountain: they never go away.
This, thought I, is a dismal-looking outcome—two men and a dead horse left high and dry on the sun-flooded prairie.
Not while I had the open prairie underfoot and the summer sky above, and hands to strike a blow or pull a trigger.
"We'll be blamed lucky if we don't run into a prairie-fire before mornin'," Piegan grumbled.
One company also has irrigation works, and ready-made farms for settlers in the prairie provinces.
The sergeant went out, and when the beat of hoofs sank into the silence of the prairie, Winston called Courthorne in.
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