tableland
an elevated and generally level region of considerable extent; plateau.
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How to use tableland in a sentence
Home to rust-tinted tablelands, sky-high buttes, and ancient floodplains, this 42-mile byway is a true escape for anyone looking to discover the Midwest.
I think we had never seen anything so green since we came up on to the tableland of Tibet.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BuryThe Puna de Atacama is a great salt waste of rugged tableland, volcanic, grassless, and inhospitable.
Argentina | W. A. HirstShortly before noon they scaled the last few yards to a great tableland among the peaks.
Warrior of the Dawn | Howard Carleton BrowneAt times the naked man was a broad, flat monster upon that shimmering tableland.
The Marooner | Charles A. Stearns
The English line goes up the big green hill, in trenches and saps of reddish clay, to the plateau or tableland at the top.
The Old Front Line | John Masefield
British Dictionary definitions for tableland
/ (ˈteɪbəlˌlænd) /
flat elevated land; a plateau
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Scientific definitions for tableland
[ tā′bəl-lănd′ ]
A flat, elevated region, such as a plateau or mesa.
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