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mesa

noun

1 mesa

Flat tableland with steep edges:
— The tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water.

synonym: table.

Roget 344: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, ... show more

Roget 213: horizontality; flatness; level, plane; stratum etc. 204; dead level, dead flat; level plane.    recumbency, lying down etc. v.; ... show more

Dutch: plateau
Polish: stoliwo

2 Mesa

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


Moby thesaurus: alkali flat, alluvial plain, basin, bench, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, desert, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass veld ... show more.

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