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plainsman

plainsman

1 7.8
A person who lives on wide flat land like the Great Plains
  • noun
  • /ˈpleɪnzˌmæn/
  • US
translation icon : hombre de las llanuras
  • The plainsman rode his horse across the vast landscape of the Great Plains.

Examples

  • Plainsman: You know...

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  • This person doesn't 'own' a "worldview," as such, so is unable to accept the kind invitation of "plainsman" to "articulate" one here.

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  • As that friend of "plainsman" pointed out.

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  • He don't have no plainsman's hat neither.

  • Say it was a young fella wearing old cowboy clothes with a bandana over his mouth and a plainsman's hat slouched over his eyes.

  • He's a two-gun plainsman, and in addition, carries a derringer in his vest pocket as a hide out.

  • It does seem, though, like "plainsman" is determined to see and present (what we here in the Free Wild World experience as The Great Give-away Circle, The Hoop of Life) as instead some kind of death struggle of each against all.

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  • Grant that "plainsman" and his fellah 'n' gal captives have come honestly enough by their "dog-eat-dog" view of the never-ending Song 'n' Dance of Life Herownself and the place in it of our Mother Earth.

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  • The difficulty "plainsman" and fellah 'n' gal domesticates might be having with The Living Virtue of Organic Functional Integrity is likely due to their never having been exposed to the Original Natural Language, even in approximate 'translation.'

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  • "Little did the doughty plainsman realize that this tiny prairie primrose "was one day to burgeon into womanhood's fairest flower, "Annie Oakley."

Synonyms

plains inhabitant
vsplainsman
  • US
5.6

Person who lives on wide, flat grasslands, especially in North America

refers specifically to an adult male from that region

Surface Forms

plainsman singular
plainsmen plural

Morphology

plainsman = plains + man (transparent) = plains + man

Clear compounding of 'plains' + 'man' meaning 'a man from the plains', directly inferable from the parts.

Etymology

Plainsman is made from plain meaning 'flat land' and man, so it simply means a man from the wide, open country. That's why a plainsman refers to someone who lives on the plains, like the Great Plains of North America.