name
Meaning 1
Alternative form of Prairies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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Standard Lemma guide
prairie
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɛə.ɹi/
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US: prârʹē
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/ˈpɹɛəɹi/ without the Mary–marry–merry merger
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[ˈpɹɛɹi] Mary–marry–merry merger
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Australian: /ˈpɹeːɹi/
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New-Zealand: /ˈpɹeəɹi/ without the cheer–chair merger
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/ˈpɹiəɹi/ New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
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Scotland: /ˈpɹeɹɪ/
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Scotland: /ˈpɹeɹe/
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/ˈpɹɜːɹɪ/ Lancashire, fair–fur merger
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rhymes with -ɛəɹi
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CMU ARPABET: P R EH1 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wilcox County, Alabama.
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name
Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois.
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name
Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Black Township, Posey County, Indiana.
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name
Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
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name
Meaning 6
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Skagit County, Washington.
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name
Meaning 7
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Prairie Township.
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name
Meaning 8
A rural town in the Shire of Flinders, Queensland, Australia.
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name
Meaning 9
A locality in the Shire of Loddon, Victoria, Australia.
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noun
Meaning 10
An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
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noun
Meaning 11
a treeless grassy plain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: grassland
Narrower terms: Great Plains, Great Plains of North America
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French prairie, from Old French praerie, from Vulgar Latin *prataria, from Latin prātum (“meadow”) + -aria.
Across languages
Translations
57 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: campera — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Asturian: pradera — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Asturian: pradería — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Bangi: esobe — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Belarusian: прэ́рыя (préryja) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Bulgarian: пре́рия (prérija) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Catalan: praderia — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Cherokee: ᎢᎪᏗ (igodi) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Cheyenne: tóhtoo'e — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Chinese Mandarin: 草原 (cǎoyuán) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Plains-Cree: ᐸᐢᑳᐧᐤ (paskwâw) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Plains-Cree: ᒪᐢᑯᑌᐤ (maskotew) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Czech: prérie — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Danish: prærie — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Estonian: preeria — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Finnish: preeria — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- French: prairie — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Galician: pradaría — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- German: Prärie — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Hebrew: עֲרָבָה ('aravá) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Hindi: प्रेरी (prerī) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Hungarian: préri — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Italian: prateria — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Japanese: プレーリー (purērī) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Japanese: 草原 (sōgen) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Korean: 프레리 (peureri) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Korean: 초원 (chowon) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Lakota: thíŋta — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Lingala: esobe — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Lithuanian: prerija — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Macedonian: прерија (prerija) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Miami: mahkoteewi — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Navajo: halgai — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Norwegian Bokmål: prærie — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Norwegian Nynorsk: prærie — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Occitan: pradariá — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Ojibwe: mashkode — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Omaha-Ponca: bahónhon — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Osage: 𐓳𐓟𐓸𐓟 hcexé — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Plautdietsch: Spap — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Plautdietsch: Präarie — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Polish: preria — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Portuguese: prado — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Portuguese: pradaria — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Romanian: prerie — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Russian: пре́рия (prérija) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Serbo-Croatian: prȇrija — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Serbo-Croatian: пре̑рија — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Slovak: préria — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Spanish: pradera — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Swedish: prärie — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Turkish: bozkır — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Turkish: step — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Ukrainian: пре́рія (prérija) — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Unami: xinkhòkihakàn — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Vietnamese: thảo nguyên — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
- Welsh: paith — An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
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