flatland
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈflætˌlænd/
:
llanura
- The trappers have left the flatlands of the Haul Road area.
The Egyptian town being on the flatland didn't have didn't deal with topography.
- The Egyptian town being on the flatland didn't have didn't deal with topography.
Examples
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Leaving the moorlands of Calderdale, I traveled to the flatland of South Kesteven.
Academic text (1994) -
We're gonna drive north about three hours till we hit the flatlands.
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"The whole flatland is fragile," Charles said.
Fiction book (1993) -
Everything else was flatland, cleared and given over to crops.
Fiction book (1990) -
The North of France consists of the flatlands around the town of Lille and the Channel.
Blog text (24) -
I moved to Arizona from the flatlands of Nebraska in the 80s.
Blog text (2) -
So, you don't like running in the wet, sticky, swampy Florida flatlands?
Blog text (30) -
By now, the Central Pacific had broken through the wall of the high Sierras... ...and was straining eastward across the flatlands of Nevada.
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Moonlight Bay, home to twelve thousand people, rises from the harbor and flatlands into gentle serried hills.
Fiction book (1998) -
The vast flatland stretched out before us, offering a clear view of the horizon.
Synonyms
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1.0
A large flat area of land with few trees
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1.3
A large area of level land with few or no trees
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7.5
A large flat area of grass with few or no trees
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2.6
A flat or gently sloping area of land lower than nearby hills
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5.8
A flat area of land near a river with rich soil left by floods
A flat area of land made by soil left by rivers
Antonyms
How Flat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flatland is a simple compound of flat 'level' and land 'ground'. So a flatland is a wide area of ground with few or no hills.