PLATEAUS Synonyms

• a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen

• A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.

• A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.

• A place where competitive matches are carried out.

• Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.

• An urban region with many flats or apartments to rent.

• A terrain that varies little in elevation.

• A lamentation.

• An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.

• A level or flat surface.

• A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).

• A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)

• A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.

• (Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.

• An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.

• A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

• An airplane; an aeroplane.

• Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called aeroplanes.

• The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

• A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.

• (Northern UK) A sycamore.

• a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix

• flat tableland with steep edges

• extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)

• a relatively flat highland

• usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence

• a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)

• a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face)

• provide (a house) with a terrace

• make into terraces as for cultivation

• used of high or hilly country

• elevated (e.g., mountainous) land

• a relatively flat highland