Standard Lemma guide

tundra

name · noun · 4 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.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈtʌndɹə/
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  • CMU ARPABET: T AH1 N D R AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname from Romanian.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A flat and treeless Arctic biome.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A long stretch of something, such as time.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: plain, field, champaign

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: toendra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Ainu: ヌフ (nuf) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Albanian: tundër — flat treeless arctic region
  • Arabic: تُنْدْرَا (tundrā) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܘܼܢܕܪܵܐ (ṭundrā) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Armenian: տունդրա (tundra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Azerbaijani: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Belarusian: ту́ндра (túndra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Bulgarian: ту́ндра (túndra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Catalan: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Chinese Mandarin: 凍原 /冻原 (dòngyuán) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Chinese Mandarin: 苔原 (táiyuán) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Chinese Mandarin: 凍土層 /冻土层 (dòngtǔcéng) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Czech: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Danish: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Dutch: toendra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Esperanto: tundro — flat treeless arctic region
  • Estonian: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Faroese: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Faroese: frostmýra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Finnish: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • French: toundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Galician: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Georgian: ტუნდრა (ṭundra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • German: Tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Greek: τούντρα (toúntra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Greek: τούνδρα (toúndra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Hawaiian: nakilinaka — flat treeless arctic region
  • Hebrew: טוּנְדְרָה (túndra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Hindi: टुंड्रा (ṭuṇḍrā) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Hindi: तुन्द्रा (tundrā) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Hungarian: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Icelandic: freðmýri — flat treeless arctic region
  • Icelandic: túndra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Ido: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Indonesian: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Ingrian: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Interlingua: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Irish: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Italian: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Japanese: ツンドラ (tsundora) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Japanese: 凍原 (tōgen) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Kazakh: тундра (tundra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Khakas: кӧдіре (ködìre) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Korean: 툰드라 (tundeura) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Kyrgyz: тундра (tundra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Latvian: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Lithuanian: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Macedonian: ту́ндра (túndra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Mongolian: тундр (tundr) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Ossetian: тундрӕ (tundræ) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Persian: توندرا (tundrâ) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Polish: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Portuguese: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Romanian: tundră — flat treeless arctic region
  • Russian: ту́ндра (túndra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Serbo-Croatian: ту̑ндра — flat treeless arctic region
  • Serbo-Croatian: tȗndra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Shor: кӧдре (ködre) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Slovak: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Slovene: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Spanish: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Swedish: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Tagalog: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Tajik: тундра (tundra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Turkish: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Turkish: kutup bozkırı — flat treeless arctic region
  • Turkmen: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Ukrainian: ту́ндра (túndra) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Uyghur: تۇندىرا (tundira) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Uzbek: tundra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Vietnamese: đài nguyên — flat treeless arctic region
  • Vietnamese: đồng rêu — flat treeless arctic region
  • Vietnamese: lãnh nguyên — flat treeless arctic region
  • Volapük: muskän — flat treeless arctic region
  • Welsh: twndra — flat treeless arctic region
  • Yakut: туундара (tuundara) — flat treeless arctic region
  • Yup'ik: nunapik — flat treeless arctic region