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grassland

name · noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

name

Meaning 1

A hamlet in Athabasca County, Alberta, Canada.

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2

name

Meaning 2

A rural municipality (the Municipality of Grassland) in south-west Saskatchewan, Canada.

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3

name

Meaning 3

An unincorporated community in Lynn County, Texas, United States.

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4

noun

Meaning 4

An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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5

noun

Meaning 5

land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant life

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: biome, tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel

Narrower terms: bent, hayfield, meadow, pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley, prairie, savanna, savannah, veld, veldt

History

Etymology

From grass + land. Compare Dutch grasland (“grassland”), Faroese graslendi (“grassland”), Icelandic graslendi (“grassland”). Compare also Old English græsmolde (“grassland”).

Across languages

Translations

52 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مَرْعَى (marʕā) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Assamese: ঘাঁহনি (ghãhoni) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Belarusian: луг (luh) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Catalan: prada — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 草原 (cǎoyuán) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Chinese Mandarin: 草地 (cǎodì) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Danish: græsland — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Dutch: grasland — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Finnish: ruohomaa — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Finnish: ruohotasanko — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • French: prairie — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Galician: pradeira — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • German: Grasland — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Gujarati: બીડ (bīḍ) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Hindi: घासभूमि (ghāsbhūmi) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Ingrian: niitty — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Ingrian: heinämaa — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Irish: talamh féaraigh — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Italian: prateria — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Japanese: 草原 (sōgen) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Japanese: 草原 — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Khmer: វាលស្មៅ (viəl smaw) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Korean: 초원 (chowon) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Macedonian: тре́виште (trévište) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Māori: raorao — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Māori: pākihi — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Māori: tahora — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Old English: wangturf — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Iranian Persian: عَلَفْزار (alafzâr) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Iranian Persian: واشْزار (vâšzâr) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Iranian Persian: چَمَنْزار (čamanzâr) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Polish: łąka — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Portuguese: pradaria — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Russian: луг (lug) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Russian: сава́нна (savánna) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Serbo-Croatian: тра̑вња̄к — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Serbo-Croatian: trȃvnjāk — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Spanish: pradera — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Spanish: herbazal — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Spanish: pastizal — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Spanish: pastal — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Spanish: yerbazal — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Spanish: hierbazal — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Spanish: pajonal — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Thai: ทุ่งหญ้า (tûng-yâa) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Tibetan: སྤང་། (spang) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Ottoman Turkish: یازی (yazı) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Ukrainian: лука́ (luká) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Ukrainian: луг (luh) — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Vietnamese: đồng cỏ — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Vietnamese: thảo nguyên — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation
  • Welsh: glaswelltir — an area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation