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steppe
[ step ]
noun
- an extensive plain, especially one without trees.
- The Steppes,
- Also called Eurasian Steppe,. the vast grasslands stretching from Asia to Eastern Europe, bounded on the north by European and Asian Russia and Siberia.
steppe
/ stĕp /
- A vast, semiarid grassland, as found in southeast Europe, Siberia, and central North America.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of steppe1
First recorded in 1665–75; from Russian step' or Ukrainian step; further origin uncertain
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Word History and Origins
Origin of steppe1
C17: from Old Russian step lowland
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Example Sentences
Mentally, the man of the steppe and the desert is to-day little advanced beyond his predecessors of thousands of years ago.
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He dreamed he was on a bare steppe, strewn with big stones, under a lowering sky.
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A man traveling alone across the steppe, may be easily guessed to be a courier of the Czar.
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Half an hour after the berlin was left far behind, looking only a speck on the horizon of the steppe.
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She knows the steppe, and would have no fear in just taking her staff and going down the banks of the Irtych.
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