flood plain
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3.7
- noun
- /flʌd pleɪn/
:
llanura de inundación
- Of course, many houses built in flood plains are required by their mortgage lenders to have flood insurance.
- live in flood plain
Dried riverbeds, river deltas, flood plains.
- Dried riverbeds, river deltas, flood plains.
- And of course, if we're building on flood plains, that puts those living on the flood plains at risk of of flooding.
Examples
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The property's in the flood plain and deteriorating.
Fiction book (1997) -
The government does it to reduce new construction in flood plains.
Blog text (5) -
Want to live in the flood plain? Accept the risk of flood damage.
Blog text (14) -
You know what happens when you build on flood plains in Louisiana.
Blog text (4) -
The soil was formed in recent alluvium from limestone and exists on flood plains.
Academic text (2009) -
Given the uncertainty of the discharges from the dam, farming on the flood plains was simply too risky.
Academic text (2005) -
Water flows from the snow melt in Angola into Botswana, creating the delta and flood plains.
Academic text (1994) -
For the past three centuries, the Mousgoum have made their home in the flood plains that straddle the border between northern Cameroon and Chad.
Academic text (2001) -
More specifically, the new regulations restrict the siting of landfills near airports, wetlands, flood plains, and fault areas.
Academic text (1993) -
Many families choose to build their homes on the flood plain because it offers fertile soil for gardening.
Synonyms
33
5.8
Flat low land next to a river that often floods
11
4.6
Low land next to a river that can flood
2
7.2
Low land next to a river that often floods and has rich soil
1
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
A low flat area beside a river that often floods
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'flood' (overflow of water) + 'plain' (flat open land) in a straightforward compositional way: a plain that is prone to flooding. This is a regular noun–noun compound pattern with clear semantics and cross-linguistic equivalents, so a B1 learner who knows both words can reliably infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Flood plain comes from a simple picture: a wide, flat plain next to a river that a flood fills. So, flood plain means 'flat land beside a river that often floods'.