mesa
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈmeɪsə/
:
meseta
- Even in the dead of a moonlit night, the mesa appeared a deep blood red.
- mesa top
- mesa's cliffs
- mesas and canyons
And there's actually areas around the Middle East where there's big mesas that are known as the Thrones of Solomon.
- And there's actually areas around the Middle East where there's big mesas that are known as the Thrones of Solomon.
- Years and years and years ago, I loaded a piece of specialty equipment into the Los Alamos Labs up on the Mesa in New Mexico.
- It looks like an undersea Mesa in Google Earth and, and it's about it's, it's off of point Magoo.
- But the Hopi prophecy portrayed on this rock on the third Mesa just north of here is actually a prophecy that works in two parts.
- She was one of the so-called traditionalists who moved away from Olda Rybi to resettle the traditionalists to different areas on the Mesa.
- At entry, you know, from extreme heat, you know, that type of material that has been extracted from the Mesa is real.
Examples
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I camped out one night on the edge of a mesa in Utah.
Fiction book (1999) -
What was so special about those people who faced the sky from this mesa so long ago?
Academic text (2002) -
That mesa we saw today, one of my favorite places in the world.
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You two could have a beautiful little castle on the mesa.
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The hills became mountains, and the mountains became mesas, with flat tops high up.
Fiction book (1992) -
Not far off the highway, the largest of these mesas sort of erupted out of the ground.
Fiction book (1991) -
The twisting road crested the top of a wooded mesa and began to descend steeply.
Fiction book (1995) -
The terrain was even hillier now, with isolated slug-shaped mesas rising up from patches of woods and rocky meadows.
Fiction book (1991) -
A distinctive orange band around inner-canyon mesas and buttes draws the viewer's gaze into the gorge's depths.
Academic text (2012) -
The twisting road crested the top of a wooded mesa and began to descend steeply.
Synonyms
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3.9
A large flat area of land higher than the land around it
80
7.5
A flat, high area of land with steep sides
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8.9
A steep hill with a flat top and slanted sides that rises alone from the land
Antonyms
Compounds
A national park in Colorado with well-preserved ancient cliff homes built by Native Americans
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mesa comes from Spanish mesa 'table', and before that from Latin mensa 'table'. A mesa looks like a big stone table—flat on top with steep sides—so the name fits its flat, raised shape.