champaign

noun

sham-ˈpān How to pronounce champaign (audio)
Definition of champaignnext
as in plain
a broad area of level or rolling treeless country after days of trudging through dense forest, the explorers came upon a vast champaign

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  1. plain
  2. prairie
  3. steppe
  4. grassland
  5. pampa
Noun
  • The lake was a white plain with patches of dark timber on the far shore.
    Wilson H. Stover, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024
  • What a 1,000-mile railway across the Yucatán jungle says about Mexico’s outgoing president Sept. 29, 2024 The canal networks were built as early as 4,000 years ago by semi-nomadic people in the Yucatan coastal plain.
    Christina Larson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Nov. 2024
Definition of plain
Noun
  • Dead Outlaw David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and Itamar Moses’s musical unspools with the homey charm of broadcast heard on a fuzzy radio transmission on a winter night in the prairie.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The Northeast does not have the huge prairies conducive for wind farms or the easily accessible geothermal energy that exists in parts of the West Coast.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of prairie
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  • Deep in the sagebrush steppe of southeast Idaho on December 20, 1951, a team of nuclear physicists gathered around four 200-watt lightbulbs dangling from a slack wire.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
  • But that factor, so present for so long in world history, disappeared first with Czar’s troops overrunning the steppes of Central Asia in the late 1700s.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of steppe
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  • During the dry season, the pans are flat, white, vast, and practically lunar, but when the rains start in November, the landscape shifts almost overnight, turning into a vibrant grassland.
    Nicholas DeRenzo, AFAR Media, 18 Dec. 2024
  • By century’s end, up to 20% of all Earth’s land could experience abrupt ecosystem transformation, such as forests becoming grasslands, with attendant extinction and collapse of ecosystems.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of grassland
Noun
  • Use it for fresh buds or a few pampas stems to liven up your living room or sleeping space.
    Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Shop vibrant blooms like coral daisies, autumn sunflowers and golden yarrow, plus grass stems like pampas, wheat and bunny tails.
    Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2023
Definition of pampa
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