tableland
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tableland
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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
Across the River of the Dead and deep in the rolling tableland of Brazil's limitless interior live the wild Chavante Indians.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is to look down upon river, lake, jungle, snow-capped mountain, desert, steppe, tableland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Flying on surgical calls over Southern Rhodesia's 150.300 square miles of 4,000-ft.-high tableland, Sir Godfrey came to know more of his country than most Prime Ministers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except on the Darling Downs, progress on the tableland has been retarded until a comparatively recent date through the land being locked up in pastoral leaseholds.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
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