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tableland

American  
[tey-buhl-land] / ˈteɪ bəlˌlænd /

noun

  1. an elevated and generally level region of considerable extent; plateau.


tableland British  
/ ˈteɪbəlˌlænd /

noun

  1. flat elevated land; a plateau

"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

tableland Scientific  
/ tābəl-lănd′ /
  1. A flat, elevated region, such as a plateau or mesa.


Etymology

Origin of tableland

First recorded in 1690–1700; table + -land

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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

Somewhere in the desolate tableland south of Zaragoza the main line to Barcelona was severed.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Restless, he wanders to the edge of the tableland and has an experience no lizard has had before.

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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