steppe
steppe is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.One of the vast plains in Southeastern Europe and in Asia, generally elevated, and free from wood, analogous to many of the prairies in Western North America. See Savanna. Steppe murrain. (Far.) See Rinderpest.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alkali
- alluvial
- basin
- bush
- campagna
- campestral
- campestrian
- champaign
- common
- country
- desert
- face
- field
- flat
- green
- greensward
- haugh
- heath
- heather
- lawn
- lay
- lea
- level
- ley
- llano
- maidan
- mead
- meadow
- mesa
- moor
- moorland
- open
- pampas
- park
- pasturage
- plain
- plat
- plateau
- playa
- plot
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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