Terrain

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An area of land; ground: climbed a tree to view the surrounding terrain.
  • n. A particular geographic area; a region: a guide who knows this terrain well.
  • n. The surface features of an area of land; topography: boots designed for rugged terrain.
  • n. Variant of terrane.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
  • n. An area of land or the particular features of it.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A part of the earth's surface limited in extent; a region, district, or tract of land, either looked at in a general way or considered with reference to its fitness or use for some special purpose, as for a building-place or a battle-field: a term little used in English except in translating from the French, and then with the same meaning which it has in the original.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    terrane   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    formation    area    territory   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alane    Aquitaine    Ayn    Bahrain    Biscayne    Blaine    Cain    Chain    Champagne    Champaign   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    landscape    climate    environment    plateau    surrounding    slope    route    wilderness    obstacle    hillside