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,
prairie,
heath,
common,
wold†,
veldt;
moor,
moorland;
bush;
plateau
etc.
(level)
213;
campagna†;
alkali flat,
llano;
mesa,
mesilla [U.S.],
playa;
shaking prairie,
trembling prairie;
vega [Sp.].
meadow,
mead,
haugh†,
pasturage,
park,
field,
lawn,
green,
plat,
plot,
grassplat†,
greensward,
sward,
turf,
sod,
heather;
lea,
ley,
lay;
grounds;
maidan†,
agostadero†.
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Roget 213:
horizontality†;
flatness;
level,
plane;
stratum
etc.
204;
dead level,
dead flat;
level plane.
recumbency,
lying down
etc.
v.;
reclination†,
decumbence†;
decumbency†,
discumbency†;
proneness
etc.
adj.;
accubation†,
supination†,
resupination†,
prostration;
azimuth.
plain,
floor,
platform,
bowling green;
cricket ground;
croquet ground,
croquet lawn;
billiard table;
terrace,
estrade†,
esplanade,
parterre.
[flat land area]
table land,
plateau,
ledge;
butte;
mesa
(plain)
344.
[instrument to measure horizontality]
level,
spirit level.
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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, grassland, heath, lande, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, steppe, table, table mountain, tableland, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, weald, wide-open spaces, wold ... show more.
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