Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Synonyms

plains

British  
/ pleɪnz /

plural noun

  1. extensive tracts of level or almost level treeless countryside; prairies

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Satellites have photographed the far side before, but the astronauts were the first human eyes to see some parts of the far side's surface and its vast craters and lava plains.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2026

McMurtry was born in 1936 in Archer City, a town of a few thousand on the sunbaked and featureless plains of north-central Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

He said the count was "going smoothly" across the Himalayan nation, from snowbound mountain regions to the hot plains bordering India.

From Barron's • Mar. 7, 2026

Geological evidence shows that between 15,000-19,000 years ago, glaciers positioned over similar ice plains retreated at extraordinary speeds, sometimes moving back hundreds of meters per day.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

A hollow voice rolled across the plains, shaking the warm fleshy ground.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.