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prairie

[ prair-ee ]

noun

  1. an extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in the Mississippi valley, characterized by a highly fertile soil and originally covered with coarse grasses, and merging into drier plateaus in the west. Compare pampas, savanna, steppe.
  2. a tract of grassland; meadow.
  3. (in Florida) a low, sandy tract of grassland often covered with water.
  4. Southern U.S. wet grassland; marsh.
  5. (initial capital letter) a steam locomotive having a two-wheeled front truck, six driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.


prairie

/ ˈɛəɪ /

noun

  1. often plural a treeless grassy plain of the central US and S Canada Compare pampas steppe savanna
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

prairie

  1. An extensive area of flat or rolling grassland, especially the large plain of central North America.
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  • ۾· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of prairie1

1675–85; < French: meadow < Vulgar Latin *, equivalent to Latin ( um ) meadow + -, feminine of -ary
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Word History and Origins

Origin of prairie1

C18: from French, from Old French praierie, from Latin um meadow
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For decades, many in the oil and gas-rich prairie provinces of Alberta and Saskachtewan have bemoaned how they are underrepresented, despite the region's economic significance for the country as a whole.

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Black Barn Apiary’s Luxe Gold Honey is infused with edible gold mica and made on 20 acres of restored native prairie land in Wisconsin.

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Upstairs from the bar in the boarding house, lost souls confess their secrets to a prairie witch named the Antidote.

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His pro-labor philosophy echoed Nebraska’s legacy of prairie populism, notably the founding of the People’s Party in the 1890s, which criticized Republicans and Democrats for failing to protect workers and farmers.

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In 1850, when California became the nation’s 31st state, legislators passed the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, which prohibited intentional burning in prairie lands.

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