tundra
/ˈtʌndɹə/
tundra noun: a flat and treeless Arctic biome.
Noun
tundra (countable and uncountable, plural tundras)
- A flat and treeless Arctic biome.
- The hut's walls rose without difficulty, and everything went smoothly until the problem of the roof confronted me. Of what use the four walls without a roof? And of what could a roof be made? There were the spare oars, very true. They would serve as roof-beams; but with what was I to cover them?...1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
- A long stretch of something, such as time.
- His wife and he were childhood sweethearts; he had known her for 25 years. (He will call her “my wife” throughout, just as he cannot bear to name his two sons, however carefully and lovingly he will eventually describe them. They remain “the older one” and “the younger one.”) There are tundras of...1979 August 12, Ivan Gold, “One Man's Family”, in The New York Times
- When you stood at the gulf of unknowing, / When you saw the great tundra of time, / And you cried for the winds to come blowing, / And you called a monsoon from the tides of the moon, / 'Cause the roads were all dusty and dry.1991, Dar Williams, “Calamity John”, in All My Heroes Are Dead
Proper noun capitalized: Tundra
Tundra
- A surname from Romanian.
tundra meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tundra in Hindi
- flat treeless arctic region
- टुंड्रा ṭuṇḍrā, तुन्द्रा tundrā
tundra in Tamil
- பனிச்சமவெளி, தண்ட்ரா, துருவப்பகுதி, சிந்தொடர்
tundra in Marathi
- टुंड्रा, तुंड्रा, टंड्रा
tundra in Urdu
- ٹنڈرا, تونڈرا, توندرا
More languagesFewer languages
- tundra in Bengali
- তুন্দ্রা, টুন্ড্রা, টুন্দ্রা
- tundra in Telugu
- టండ్రా, టుండ్రా, టండ్ర
- tundra in Malayalam
- തുന്ദ്ര, തുൻഡ്രാ
- tundra in Kannada
- ಟುಂಡ್ರಾ, ಟಂಡ್ರಾ, ತುಂಡ್ರಾ
- tundra in Punjabi
- ਤੁੰਦਰਾ, ਟੰਡਰਾ, ਟੁੰਡਰਾ
- tundra in Gujarati
- ટુંડ્રા, તુંડ્રા, ટુન્ડ્રા
- tundra in Odia
- ଟୁଣ୍ଡ୍ରା, ତୁନ୍ଦ୍ରା, ତୁଣ୍ଡ୍ରା
- tundra in Nepali
- टुन्ड्रा, तुन्द्रा, टुन्ड्र
- tundra in Tagalog
- tundra
- tundra in Arabic
- تُنْدْرَا tundrā
- tundra in Indonesian
- tundra
- tundra in Persian
- توندرا tundrâ
- tundra in Vietnamese
- đài nguyên, đồng rêu, lãnh nguyên
Examples of tundra in a sentence
- I go to research something online, but once out on the wild Web, lose my way—and vast tundras of time—wandering further away from whatever I was looking for with each click of the mouse.2009 December 22, Louisa Kamps, “The Distraction Diet”, in Elle:
- We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.2018 January 2, Sara Pascoe, “We should all pick achievable resolutions – get through three days of dry January and you’re a hero to me”...
Forms of tundra
| plural | tundras |
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Origin of tundra
Borrowed from Russian ту́ндра (túndra), borrowed from Kildin Sami тӯндрэ (tūndre), from Proto-Samic *tuontër (“a kind of mountain in Lapland”).
Words formed from tundra
Phrases with tundra
Questions about tundra
- What does tundra mean?
- Tundra means a flat and treeless Arctic biome.
- What is tundra in Hindi?
- Tundra in Hindi is टुंड्रा (ṭuṇḍrā), तुन्द्रा (tundrā). See Tundra meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use tundra in a sentence?
- I go to research something online, but once out on the wild Web, lose my way—and vast tundras of time—wandering further away from whatever I was looking for with each click of the mouse.
- What part of speech is tundra?
- Tundra can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tundra?
- Tundra is pronounced /ˈtʌndɹə/.
- What is the plural of tundra?
- The plural of tundra is tundras.
Words near tundra in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tundra (page history and authors); Tundra (page history and authors); tundra (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tundra (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tundra (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tundra (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tundra (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tundra (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tundra (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tundra (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tundra (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tundra (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tundra (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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