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prairie

/ˈpɹɛəɹi/UK/ˈpɹɛə.ɹi/

prairie noun: an extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.

Noun

prairie (plural prairies)

  1. 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...1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Prairie

Prairie

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Prairies.
  2. An unincorporated community in Wilcox County, Alabama.
  3. An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois.
  4. An unincorporated community in Black Township, Posey County, Indiana.
  5. An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
  6. An unincorporated community in Skagit County, Washington.
  7. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Prairie Township.
  8. A rural town in the Shire of Flinders, Queensland, Australia.
  9. A locality in the Shire of Loddon, Victoria, Australia.

prairie meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

prairie in Hindi

An extensive area of relatively flat grassland
प्रेरी prerī

prairie in Marathi

प्रेरी, प्रेयरी

prairie in Urdu

پریری

prairie in Bengali

প্রেরী
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prairie in Telugu
ప్రేరీ
prairie in Malayalam
പ്രെയറി
prairie in Punjabi
ਪ੍ਰੈਰੀ
prairie in Gujarati
પ્રેરી, પ્રેઇરી
prairie in Odia
ପ୍ରେରୀ, ପ୍ରେଇରୀ
prairie in Nepali
प्रेरी, प्रेयरी, प्रैरी
prairie in Vietnamese
thảo nguyên

Examples of prairie in a sentence

  • There is something majestic about the spirit of an unbroken mustang as it runs wild across the prairie.
  • The heavy and boat-shaped Conestoga wagon should not be confused with the lighter and cheaper prairie schooners that largely replaced them.
  • It happened when he was a tiny boy standing at the edge of a prairie coteau.

All 40 example sentences with prairie

Forms of prairie

pluralprairies

Plural of prairie: prairies

Origin of prairie

Borrowed from French prairie, from Old French praerie, from Vulgar Latin *prataria, from Latin prātum (“meadow”) + -aria.

Words formed from prairie

Phrases with prairie

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Words that rhyme with prairie

19 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about prairie

What does prairie mean?
Prairie means an extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
What is prairie in Hindi?
Prairie in Hindi is प्रेरी (prerī). See Prairie meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is prairie?
Prairie can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce prairie?
Prairie is pronounced /ˈpɹɛə.ɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of prairie?
The plural of prairie is prairies.

Words near prairie in the dictionary

  1. Praia
  2. Praia Grande
  3. Praid
  4. Prairial
  5. Prairials
  6. prairie
  7. prairie alligator
  8. prairie alligators
  9. prairie apple
  10. prairie apples
  11. prairie banana

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prairie (page history and authors); Prairie (page history and authors); prairie (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prairie (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prairie (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prairie (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prairie (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prairie (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prairie (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prairie (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); prairie (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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