tableland
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tableland
Vocabulary lists containing tableland
East Asia - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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In every direction, reddish-brown tableland sprawled to the horizon, broken here and there by pinyon-juniper forest.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2015
Old Castile covers the northern part of Spain's bleak, sun-scorched central tableland.
From Time Magazine Archive
North Anchor of the British blockade in the Atlantic is the volcanic tableland called Iceland, which, until April 10, shared Christian X with Denmark as her King.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its two acres of level tableland formed of whitish rock, sheering out of the sea and covered only with stunted growth, looked good to her.
From Time Magazine Archive
I think we had never seen anything so green since we came up on to the tableland of Tibet.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
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