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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /pleɪn/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [pl̥eɪn]
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• Scotland: /plen/
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• Wales: /plein/ without the pane–pain merger
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• South-Asia: /plen/
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• South-Asia: /plɛjn/ without the pane–pain merger, spelling pronunciation
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• homophone: plane (pane–pain merger)
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• rhymes with -eɪn
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• CMU ARPABET: P L EY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, and Old French plain, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.

From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Old French plein, from Latin plēnus (“full, filled, complete”). Ultimately from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h1nós (“full”). Doublet of plene, plenary, and full.

From Old French plain, from Latin plānum (“level ground, a plain”), neuter substantive from plānus (“level, even, flat”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.

From Anglo-Norman plainer, pleiner, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French pleindre, plaindre, from Latin plangere.

291 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: بَسِيط (basīṭ) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Arabic: بسيط (bsīṭ) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Armenian: պարզ (parz) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Azerbaijani: sadə — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Basque: apal — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Basque: xume — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Basque: lau — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Bulgarian: прост (prost) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Bulgarian: обикновен (obiknoven) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Catalan: senzill — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Chinese Mandarin: 平的 (píng de) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Chinese Mandarin: 簡單 /简单 (jiǎndān) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Chinese Mandarin: 平常 (píngcháng) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Chinese Mandarin: 質素 /质素 (zhìsù) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Czech: prostý — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Czech: obyčejný — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Dutch: eenvoudig — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Finnish: selvä — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Finnish: yksinkertainen — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Finnish: tavallinen — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• French: simple — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• German: schlicht — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Ancient Greek: ψιλός (psilós) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Ancient Greek: λιτός (litós) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Hungarian: egyszerű — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Irish: pléineáilte — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Irish: simplí — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Italian: semplice — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Japanese: 平易な (heii na) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Japanese: 質素な (shisso na) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Japanese: 普段の (fudan no) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Japanese: 普通の (futsū no) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Kabuverdianu: kran — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Korean: 소박한 (sobakhan) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Northern Kurdish: sade — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Northern Kurdish: xwerû — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Ladino: plano — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Ladino: sémplise (Monastir) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Malagasy: sàha — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Manchu: ᠪᡳᡤᠠᠨ (bigan) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Māori: tōtōkau — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Māori: tōkau — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Māori: māmore — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Māori: taramore — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Māori: kōkau — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Plautdietsch: schlicht — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Polish: prosty — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Polish: zwykły — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Polish: zwyczajny — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Portuguese: simples — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Russian: просто́й (prostój) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Russian: обыкнове́нный (obyknovénnyj) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Russian: обы́чный (obýčnyj) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Scottish Gaelic: sìmplidh — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀бичан — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Serbo-Croatian: је̏дноста̄ван — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Serbo-Croatian: òbičan — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Serbo-Croatian: jȅdnostāvan — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Slovak: obyčajný — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Slovene: preprost — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Slovene: navaden — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Spanish: sencillo — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Spanish: llano — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Spanish: mondo — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Spanish: a palo seco — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Swedish: vanlig — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Tagalog: payak — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Tagalog: pangkaraniwan — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Tagalog: simple — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Thai: ธรรมดา (tam-má-daa) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Thai: งั้น ๆ (ngán-ngán) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Turkish: sade — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Ottoman Turkish: ساده (sade) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Ottoman Turkish: بیاغی (bayağı) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Ottoman Turkish: بسیط (basît) — ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation
• Arabic: سادة (sāde) — of just one colour
• Azerbaijani: saya — of just one colour
• Bulgarian: едноцветен (ednocveten) — of just one colour
• Danish: ensfarvet — of just one colour
• French: uni — of just one colour
• Norwegian Bokmål: ensfarget — of just one colour
• Norwegian Bokmål: ensfarga — of just one colour
• Norwegian Nynorsk: einsfarga — of just one colour
• Polish: jednolity — of just one colour
• Russian: одноцветный (odnocvetnyj) — of just one colour
• Spanish: pleno — of just one colour
• Spanish: plenario — of just one colour
• Spanish: mero — of just one colour
• Spanish: entero — of just one colour
• Spanish: enterizo — of just one colour
• Swedish: enfärgad — of just one colour
• Tagalog: liso — of just one colour
• Tagalog: linso — of just one colour
• Catalan: natural — unseasoned
• Catalan: simple — unseasoned
• Chinese Mandarin: 原味 (yuánwèi) — unseasoned
• Finnish: maustamaton — unseasoned
• Finnish: tavallinen — unseasoned
• French: nature — unseasoned
• German: Natur- — unseasoned
• Icelandic: hreinn — unseasoned
• Irish: pléineáilte — unseasoned
• Italian: al naturale — unseasoned
• Italian: in bianco — unseasoned
• Kabuverdianu: kran — unseasoned
• Latin: non condītus — unseasoned
• Polish: nieprzyprawiony — unseasoned
• Portuguese: natural — unseasoned
• Portuguese: insípido — unseasoned
• Slovak: bez príchute — unseasoned
• Spanish: desabrido — unseasoned
• Spanish: natural — unseasoned
• Spanish: sencillo — unseasoned
• Spanish: mondo — unseasoned
• Spanish: puro — unseasoned
• Turkish: sade — unseasoned
• Ottoman Turkish: ساده (sade) — unseasoned
• Ottoman Turkish: تربیهسز (terbiyesiz) — unseasoned
• Catalan: net — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• Dutch: kaal — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• French: simple texte — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• Japanese: 平 (hira) — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• Polish: prosty — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• Portuguese: simples — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• Russian: обычный (obyčnyj) — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• Russian: простой (prostoj) — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• Spanish: con solamente caracteres normales — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• Spanish: libre de caracteres especiales — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• Spanish: sin caracteres especiales — computing: containing no non-printing characters
• Polish: zwyczajnie — adverb
• Polish: po prostu — adverb
• Spanish: plenamente — adverb
• Spanish: plenariamente — adverb
• Spanish: sencillamente — adverb
• Albanian: rrafsh — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Albanian: rrah — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Albanian: arë — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Arabic: سَهْل (sahl) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Arabic: سهل (sahl) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Armenian: հարթավայր (hartʻavayr) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Armenian: դաշտավայր (daštavayr) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Asturian: llana — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Asturian: llanada — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Asturian: llanera — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Aymara: pampa — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Azerbaijani: düzənlik — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Azerbaijani: düzən — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Bashkir: тигеҙлек (tigeźlek) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Belarusian: раўні́на (rawnína) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Bengali: সমভূমি (śombhumi) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Eastern Bontoc: tanap — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Eastern Bontoc: chator — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Bulgarian: равнина́ (ravniná) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Burmese: မြေပြန့် (mre-pran.) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Catalan: plana — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Catalan: planura — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Catalan: planícia — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Chechen: аре (are) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Chinese Cantonese: 平原 (ping4 jyun4) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Chinese Cantonese: 平野 (ping4 je5) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Chinese Mandarin: 平原 (píngyuán) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Chinese Mandarin: 平野 (píngyě) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Chuvash: тӳремлӗх (türemlĕh) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Czech: planina — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Czech: pláň — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Czech: rovina — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Danish: slette — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Dutch: vlakte — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Esperanto: ebeno — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Esperanto: ebenaĵo — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Estonian: tasandik — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Finnish: tasanko — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Finnish: tasamaa — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• French: plaine — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Galician: chaira — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Galician: chaúra — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Galician: chanzada — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Galician: zua — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Georgian: ვაკე (vaḳe) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Georgian: ბარი (bari) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• German: Ebene — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Greek: πεδιάδα (pediáda) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Greek: πεδίο (pedío) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Ancient Greek: πεδιάς (pediás) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Ancient Greek: πεδίον (pedíon) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Hebrew: מִישׁוֹר (mishór) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Hebrew: עֲרָבָה ('aravá) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Hindi: मैदान (maidān) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Hungarian: alföld — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Hungarian: síkság — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Hungarian: róna — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Icelandic: flatlendi — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Icelandic: slétta — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Ilocano: patag — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Indonesian: dataran — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Ingrian: lakkia — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Ingrian: tasanko — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Ingrian: neemi — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Irish: machaire — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Irish: má — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Italian: pianura — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Japanese: 平地 (heichi) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Japanese: 平野 (heiya) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Kabuverdianu: txada — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Lubuagan Kalinga: talap — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Southern Kalinga: tanap — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Kazakh: жазаң (jazañ) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Kazakh: жазық (jazyq) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Kazakh: тегістік (tegıstık) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Khmer: វាល (viəl) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Khmer: វាលរាប (viəl riəp) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Khmer: វាលទំនាប (viəl tumniəp) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Korean: 평지 (pyeongji) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Korean: 평야 (pyeong'ya) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Central Kurdish: دەشت (deşt) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Northern Kurdish: deşt — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Kyrgyz: түздүк (tüzdük) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Kyrgyz: түзөң (tüzöŋ) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Lao: ທີ່ຮາບ (thī hāp) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Latin: plānum — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Latin: plānitiēs — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Latvian: līdzenums — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Lithuanian: lyguma — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Macedonian: рамнина (ramnina) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Malay: dataran — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Māori: manaha — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Māori: mānia — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Māori: pākihi — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Mongolian: тал газар (tal gazar) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Navajo: halgai — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Neapolitan: chiana — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Norwegian Bokmål: slette — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Norwegian Nynorsk: slette — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Norwegian Nynorsk: slett — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Nyunga: banitj — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Occitan: plana — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Pashto: جلګه — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Pashto: شاګۍ (šāgǝ́y) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Pashto: هواره (hawāra) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Iranian Persian: دَشْت (dašt) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Iranian Persian: هامون (hâmun) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Iranian Persian: جُلْگِه (jolge) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Polish: równina — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Portuguese: planície — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Quechua: pampa — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Romanian: șes — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Romanian: câmpie — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Russian: равни́на (ravnína) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Sanskrit: अज्र (ajra) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Serbo-Croatian: равнѝца — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Serbo-Croatian: ravnìca — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Slovak: rovina — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Slovak: planina — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Slovene: rovina — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Lower Sorbian: rownina — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Lower Sorbian: płonina — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Lower Sorbian: płoń — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Southern Altai: тӱс јер (tüs ǰer) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Spanish: llanura — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Spanish: planicie — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Spanish: pampa — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Swahili: tambarare — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Swedish: slätt — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Tagalog: patag — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Tagalog: kapatagan — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Tajik: дашт (dašt) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Tajik: ҳомун (homun) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Tashelhit: ⴰⵣⴰⵖⴰⵔ (azaɣar) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Tatar: тигезлек (tigezlek) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Tày: búng tô̱ng nà — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Telugu: బయలు (bayalu) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Tetum: rai tetuk — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Thai: ที่ราบ (tîi-râap) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Tibetan: ཐང (thang) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Turkish: düzlük — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Turkish: ova — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Ottoman Turkish: یازی (yazı) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Turkmen: düzlük — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Ukrainian: рівни́на (rivnýna) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Urdu: دَشْت (daśt) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Urdu: مَیدان (maidān) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Uyghur: تۈزلەڭلىك (tüzlenglik) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Uzbek: tekislik — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Vietnamese: đồng bằng — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Vietnamese: bình nguyên — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Walloon: plin — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Walloon: plinne — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Welsh: gwastatir — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Welsh: gwastadedd — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Welsh: gwastad — an expanse of land with relatively low relief
• Zazaki: merg (diq) — an expanse of land with relatively low relief