prairie

IPA: prˈɛri

An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wilcox County, Alabama.
An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois.
An unincorporated community in Black Township, Posey County, Indiana.
An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
An unincorporated community in Skagit County, Washington.
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Prairie Township.
A rural town in the Shire of Flinders, Queensland, Australia.
A locality in the Shire of Loddon, Victoria, Australia.
Alternative form of Prairies [the Great Plains of North America]

Examples of "prairie" in Sentences

This land, you will observe, Mr Campbell, is peculiarly good, having some few acres of what we call prairie, or natural meadow.
This land, you will observe, Mr. Campbell, is peculiarly good, having some few acres of what we call prairie, or natural meadow.
When Frémont and his men crossed the continent to California, in 1842, they ate the flesh of that species of marmot which we know as the prairie-dog.
Even in the towns that survive and in some cases flourish, the prairie is a presence just beyond main street or the railroad tracks or the strip malls.
* High style on a plain prairie: Why a Kansas-born luxury furniture designer set up his manufacturing shop in his home state, far from the cities where his wares sell.
In a leadership made up mostly of veteran senators from the South, 47-year-old Thune brings youth and what he calls the prairie sensibilities he learned growing up in small town South Dakota.
The term prairie is a misnomer in this case; instead we found a beautiful fruitful valley lying between two low ranges of hills, interspersed with groves of trees and picturesque lakes, and watered by a river winding gracefully through its whole length.
Indeed, the Brown women look nothing like the women in prairie dresses associated with the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints church formerly run by Warren Jeffs, who was convicted of statutory rape for arranging the wedding of a 14-year-old girl to an older man.