prairie
noun/ˈpreəri/
/ˈpreri/
[countable, uncountable]- a flat, wide area of land in North America, without many trees and originally covered with grass
- Only about 5 per cent of native prairie is left in Kansas.
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyc2- The North American prairie was once the world's largest grassland.
- a train of covered wagons crossing the wide American prairies
- settlers' houses on the prairies of Canada
- their route across the prairie
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- high
- open
- rolling
- …
- cross
- grass
- fire
- across the prairie
- on the prairie
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, from Old French praerie, from Latin pratum ‘meadow’.
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