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What is the difference between prairie and plain?

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Plain is a synonym of prairie.



As nouns the difference between prairie and plain

is that prairie is an extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America while plain is a lamentation.

As a proper noun Prairie

is alternate form of Prairies|lang=en.

As an adjective plain is

flat, level.

As an adverb plain is

simply.

As a verb plain is

to lament, bewail.

prairie

Noun

(en noun)
  • An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
  • *
  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • Derived terms

    * California coastal prairie * camas prairie * Canadian Prairies * coastal prairie * dry-mesic prairie * (pomme de prairie) () * prairie alligator () * (prairie anemone) * (prairie apple) * (prairie aster) () ** (white prairie aster) () ** (creeping white prairie aster) () * (prairie bean) () * (prairie berry) () * (vern, prairie bird's-foot trefoil) * prairie bitters * prairie bottom * prairie brant * prairie-breaker * prairie-breaking * prairie buffalo * (prairie burdock) * prairie-buster * (prairie button snakeroot) () * prairie chicken (Tympanuchus spp.) * * prairie climate * prairie clipper * prairie clover (Dalea spp.) * prairie coal * (prairie cock) (Tympanuchus spp.) * prairie cocktail * (prairie coneflower) () * prairie conjunctivitis * (prairie cordgrass) () * (prairie crab), (prairie crab apple), (prairie crabapple) () * Prairie Cree * (prairie crocus) () * (prairie cup) * prairied * (prairie deer mouse) (Peromyscus maniculatus ) * ) * prairie dog ( spp.) * prairiedom * (prairie dropseed) () * (prairie falcon) (Falco mexicanus ) * (prairie false-dandelion) () * prairie-fire * prairie-formation * (prairie fowl) * (prairie fox) (Vulpes macrotis'', ''Vulpes velox ) * (prairie gentian) () * (prairie golden aster) () * (prairie goldenrod) () * (prairie goose) * (prairie gourd), ) * (prairie grass pink) () * (prairie grouse) (Tympanuchus phasianellus ) * (prairie hare) () * (prairie hen) (Tympanuchus spp.) * prairie itch * prairie lake * (prairie lizard) () * prairie loo * (prairie lotus) * prairie madness * (prairie mallow) ( spp.) * (prairie marmot) ( spp.) * (prairie mimosa) () * (prairie mole) * (prairie orchid) ( spp.) * (prairie owl) () * prairie oyster * (prairie pea) () * prairie phase * (prairie pigeon) (Numenius borealis ) * prairie plough, prairie plow * (prairie plover) (Charadrius montanus ) * (prairie potato) () * prairie pothole * Prairie Provinces * (prairie ragwort) () * (prairie rattler), (prairie rattlesnake) () * prairie-renovator * prairie rent * prairie restoration * (prairie rocket) () * (prairie rose) (, Rosa blanda ) * ) * ) * Prairie School * prairie schooner * prairie ship * (prairie shrew) () * (prairie skink) () * prairie skirt * (prairie smoke) ( et al) * (prairie snake) () ** (prairie hognose snake) () ** (prairie kingsnake) () * (prairie snipe) * prairie soil * Prairie Spy * prairie squint * (prairie squirrel) ( spp.'' - gopher) * (prairie star) ** (smooth prairie star) () * Prairie State * Prairie style * (prairie sunflower) () * (prairie thistle) () * (prairie trefoil) * (prairie trillium) () * prairie turnip () * (prairie vole) () * prairie value * (prairie vetchling) ) * * prairie wagon * ) * ) * prairie ware * , prairie white-fringed orchis * ) * prairie wolf * prairie wool * (queen of the prairie), queen-of-the-prairie () * restored prairie * salt prairie * shaking prairie * short-grass prairie * Silicon Prairie * soda prairie * tall-grass prairie, tallgrass prairie * trembling prairie * urban prairie * virgin prairie

    See also

    * ("prairie" on Wikipedia) * pampa * savanna * steppe ----

    plain

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pleyn, playn, (etyl) plain, plein, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • * Bible, (w) xl. 4
  • The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain .
  • Simple.
  • # Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
  • #* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.}}
  • # Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
  • # Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
  • #* (Henry Hammond) (1605-1660)
  • plain yet pious Christians
  • #* (Abraham Lincoln) (1809-1865)
  • the plain people
  • # (label) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
  • # (label) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
  • Obvious.
  • # Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
  • #* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. XV, ''Practical — Devotional
  • In fact, by excommunication or persuasion, by impetuosity of driving or adroitness in leading, , it is now becoming plain everywhere, is a man that generally remains master at last.
  • # Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
  • Open.
  • # Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
  • #* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • an honest mind, and plain
  • # Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
  • #* Felton
  • Our troops beat an army in plain fight.
  • Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
  • Synonyms
    * no-frills * normal * ordinary * simple * unadorned * unseasoned * See also
    Antonyms
    * bells and whistles * decorative * exotic * fancy * ornate
    Derived terms
    * plain and simple * plain as a pikestaff * plain as the nose on one's face * plain chocolate * plain clothes * plain-dealing * plain film * plain flour * plain-hearted * plain Jane * plain-laid * plain line * plain paper * plain sailing * plain song/plainsong * plain-spoken * plain text * plain-vanilla * plain weave * plain-winged * plainly * plainness

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (colloquial) Simply
  • It was just plain stupid.
    I plain forgot.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) plainer, pleiner, variant of (etyl) and (etyl) pleindre, plaindre, from (etyl) plangere, present active infinitive of .

    Alternative forms

    * plein

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
  • * 1815 , Sir , The Lady of the Isles , Canto IV, part IX
  • The warrior-threat, the infant's plain ,
    The mother's screams, were heard in vain;

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lament, bewail.
  • to plain a loss
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
  • Thy mother could thee for thy cradle set / Her husband's rusty iron corselet; / Whose jargling sound might rock her babe to rest, / That never plain' d of his uneasy nest.
  • * , More Poems , XXV, lines 5-9
  • Then came I crying, and to-day,
    With heavier cause to plain ,
    Depart I into death away,
    Not to be born again.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) plain, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia plain) (en noun)
  • An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
  • * Milton
  • Him the Ammonite / Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain .
  • * 1961 , J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
  • For Plato the life of the philosopher is a life of struggle towards the goal of knowledge, towards “searching the heavens and measuring the plains , in all places seeking the nature of everything as a whole”
  • A battlefield.
  • (Arbuthnot)
  • * Shakespeare
  • Lead forth my soldiers to the plain .
  • (obsolete) A .
  • Synonyms
    * flatlands * high plain * plateau * prairie * steppe
    Antonyms
    * cliff * gorge * mountain * vale
    Derived terms
    * abyssal plain * alluvial plain * flood plain/floodplain * gibber plain * Great Plains * peneplain * Plains * plain wanderer * salt plain * the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain
    See also
    * grassland * meadow

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
  • * Wither
  • We would rake Europe rather, plain the East.
  • (obsolete) To make plain or manifest; to explain.
  • * Shakespeare
  • What's dumb in show, I'll plain in speech.

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