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plateau
noun
1 plateau
A relatively flat highland.
synonym: tableland.
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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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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Dutch: plateau, hoogvlakte, hoogland
Polish: płaskowyż, płaskowzgórze
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