plateau

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• UK: /ˈplætəʊ/
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• US: /plæˈtoʊ/
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• homophone: plateaux
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• rhymes with -əʊ
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• CMU ARPABET: P L AE0 T OW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French plateau, diminutive of plat (“a plate”); see plate. Doublet of platter.

150 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: pllaja — high, level expanse
• Albanian: rrafshnaltë — high, level expanse
• Arabic: هَضْبَة (haḍba) — high, level expanse
• Arabic: هَضَبة (haḏ̣aba) — high, level expanse
• Armenian: բարձրավանդակ (barjravandak) — high, level expanse
• Armenian: սարահարթ (sarahartʻ) — high, level expanse
• Azerbaijani: yayla — high, level expanse
• Basque: goi-ordoki — high, level expanse
• Belarusian: плато́ (plató) — high, level expanse
• Bhojpuri: पठार (paṭhār) — high, level expanse
• Bulgarian: плато (plato) — high, level expanse
• Catalan: altiplà — high, level expanse
• Catalan: planell — high, level expanse
• Cebuano: patag ibabaw sa bukid — high, level expanse
• Chinese Mandarin: 高原 (gāoyuán) — high, level expanse
• Min Nan Chinese: 懸坪 /悬坪 (koân-phiân) — high, level expanse
• Czech: náhorní plošina — high, level expanse
• Danish: plateau — high, level expanse
• Danish: højslette — high, level expanse
• Dutch: hoogvlakte — high, level expanse
• Dutch: plateau — high, level expanse
• Esperanto: altebenaĵo — high, level expanse
• Estonian: lavamaa — high, level expanse
• Faroese: háslætti — high, level expanse
• Finnish: ylätasanko — high, level expanse
• Finnish: ylänkö — high, level expanse
• French: plateau — high, level expanse
• Galician: chan — high, level expanse
• Galician: rechán — high, level expanse
• Galician: couto — high, level expanse
• Georgian: ზეგანი (zegani) — high, level expanse
• German: Hochebene — high, level expanse
• German: Plateau — high, level expanse
• Greek: οροπέδιο (oropédio) — high, level expanse
• Hebrew: רָמָה (ramá) — high, level expanse
• Hiligaynon: mataas nga patag — high, level expanse
• Hindi: पठार (paṭhār) — high, level expanse
• Hindi: अधित्यका (adhityakā) — high, level expanse
• Hungarian: fennsík — high, level expanse
• Hungarian: felföld — high, level expanse
• Ibanag: atannang nga tanà — high, level expanse
• Icelandic: háslétta — high, level expanse
• Ilocano: banak — high, level expanse
• Ilocano: nangato a tanap — high, level expanse
• Indonesian: plato — high, level expanse
• Indonesian: dataran tinggi — high, level expanse
• Irish: ardchlár — high, level expanse
• Italian: altopiano — high, level expanse
• Japanese: 高原 (kōgen) — high, level expanse
• Kannada: ಪ್ರಸ್ಥಭೂಮಿ (prasthabhūmi) — high, level expanse
• Kashmiri: وُڈٕر (vuḍụr) — high, level expanse
• Khmer: ខ្ពង់រាប (khpŭəngriəp) — high, level expanse
• Korean: 고원 (gowon) — high, level expanse
• Central Kurdish: بان (ban) — high, level expanse
• Northern Kurdish: zozan — high, level expanse
• Lao: ພູພຽງ (phuphiang) — high, level expanse
• Latin: planus — high, level expanse
• Latin: platus — high, level expanse
• Latvian: plakankalne — high, level expanse
• Latvian: plato — high, level expanse
• Lithuanian: plynaukštė — high, level expanse
• Macedonian: висорамнина (visoramnina) — high, level expanse
• Malay: penara — high, level expanse
• Malay: dataran tinggi — high, level expanse
• Malay: plato — high, level expanse
• Manx: ard-chlaare — high, level expanse
• Māori: mānia pūwhata — high, level expanse
• Marathi: पठार (paṭhār) — high, level expanse
• Mongolian: өндөрлөг (öndörlög) — high, level expanse
• Norwegian Bokmål: platå — high, level expanse
• Norwegian Bokmål: høyslette — high, level expanse
• Norwegian Nynorsk: platå — high, level expanse
• Norwegian Nynorsk: høgslette — high, level expanse
• Pangasinan: atagey a patar — high, level expanse
• Pangasinan: atagey a palatas — high, level expanse
• Persian: فلات (falât) — high, level expanse
• Polish: plateau — high, level expanse
• Polish: płaskowyż — high, level expanse
• Portuguese: planalto — high, level expanse
• Portuguese: platô — high, level expanse
• Portuguese: altiplano — high, level expanse
• Romanian: platou — high, level expanse
• Romanian: podiș — high, level expanse
• Russian: плато́ (plató) — high, level expanse
• Russian: плоского́рье (ploskogórʹje) — high, level expanse
• Serbo-Croatian: visija — high, level expanse
• Serbo-Croatian: visoravan — high, level expanse
• Serbo-Croatian: zaravan — high, level expanse
• Slovak: náhorná rovina — high, level expanse
• Slovak: náhorná plošina — high, level expanse
• Slovene: planota — high, level expanse
• Spanish: meseta — high, level expanse
• Spanish: altiplano — high, level expanse
• Spanish: altiplanicie — high, level expanse
• Spanish: altipampa — high, level expanse
• Spanish: tablazo — high, level expanse
• Swedish: platå — high, level expanse
• Tagalog: talampas — high, level expanse
• Tagalog: pantayanin — high, level expanse
• Thai: ที่ราบสูง (tîi-râap-sǔung) — high, level expanse
• Tibetan: ས་མཐོའི་ཐང་ཆེན (sa mtho'i thang chen) — high, level expanse
• Tibetan: མཐོ་སྒང (mtho sgang) — high, level expanse
• Turkish: yayla — high, level expanse
• Turkish: plato — high, level expanse
• Ottoman Turkish: یایلا (yayla) — high, level expanse
• Ukrainian: плато́ (plató) — high, level expanse
• Vietnamese: cao nguyên — high, level expanse
• Welsh: llwyfandir — high, level expanse
• Zazaki: plato — high, level expanse
• Bulgarian: плато (plato) — stable, high level
• Catalan: replà — stable, high level
• Finnish: vakiintunut taso — stable, high level
• Galician: rechán — stable, high level
• Galician: potín — stable, high level
• German: Plateau — stable, high level
• Hindi: स्थिरांक (sthirāṅk) — stable, high level
• Hindi: सबात (sabāt) — stable, high level
• Hungarian: stagnálás — stable, high level
• Hungarian: plató — stable, high level
• Hungarian: tetőzés — stable, high level
• Irish: léibheann — stable, high level
• Italian: plateau — stable, high level
• Persian: ثبات (sabât) — stable, high level
• Slovak: plató — stable, high level
• Waray-Waray: umpas — stable, high level
• Welsh: man gwastad — stable, high level
• Welsh: gwastadedd — stable, high level
• Zazaki: deşt — stable, high level
• Catalan: plat — ornamental dish
• Dutch: schaal — ornamental dish
• Dutch: plateau — ornamental dish
• Galician: bacío — ornamental dish
• Galician: bandexa — ornamental dish
• Catalan: estancar — level off
• Chinese Mandarin: 持平 (chípíng) — level off
• Dutch: stagneren — level off
• Dutch: stabiliseren — level off
• Finnish: tasaantua — level off
• Finnish: tasoittua — level off
• French: stagner — level off
• French: plafonner — level off
• French: se stabiliser — level off
• French: atteindre un plateau — level off
• German: ein Plateau erreichen — level off
• German: stagnieren — level off
• Hungarian: stagnál — level off
• Hungarian: platózik — level off
• Portuguese: estagnar — level off
• Spanish: estancarse — level off
• Spanish: estabilizarse — level off