mesa
/ˈmeɪ.sə/
mesa noun: a flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
Noun
mesa (plural mesas)
- A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
- A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.
- Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961...
- a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
- The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Mesa
Mesa
- A city in Maricopa County, Arizona.
- A census-designated place in Inyo County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Mesa County, Colorado.
- An unincorporated community in Adams County, Idaho.
- A minor city in Franklin County, Washington.
- A town in Mozambique.
- A surname.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: MESA
MESA
- Acronym of Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration.
mesa meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mesa in Hindi
- मेसा
mesa in Tamil
- மெசா, மேசா
mesa in Marathi
- मेसा
mesa in Urdu
- میسا
More languagesFewer languages
- mesa in Bengali
- মেসা
- mesa in Telugu
- మెసా, మేసా
- mesa in Malayalam
- മെസ, മെസാ
- mesa in Kannada
- ಮೆಸಾ, ಮೇಸಾ
- mesa in Punjabi
- ਮੇਸਾ, ਮੈਸਾ
- mesa in Gujarati
- મેસા
- mesa in Odia
- ମେସା
- mesa in Nepali
- मेसा
- mesa in Tagalog
- talampas
- mesa in Indonesian
- mesa
- mesa in Vietnamese
- núi mặt bàn
Forms of mesa
| plural | mesas |
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Origin of mesa
First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.
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Questions about mesa
- What does mesa mean?
- Mesa means a flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.
- What is mesa in Hindi?
- Mesa in Hindi is मेसा. See Mesa meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mesa?
- Mesa can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mesa?
- Mesa is pronounced /ˈmeɪ.sə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of mesa?
- The plural of mesa is mesas.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mesa (page history and authors); Mesa (page history and authors); MESA (page history and authors); mesa (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mesa (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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