What does prairie mean?

Definitions for prairieˈprɛər i

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. prairie(noun)

    a treeless grassy plain


  1. prairie(Noun)

    an extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America

  2. Origin: From prairie.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Prairie(noun)


  2. Prairie(noun)

    a meadow or tract of grass; especially, a so called natural meadow

  3. Origin: [F., an extensive meadow, OF. praerie, LL. prataria, fr. L. pratum a meadow.]


  1. Prairie

    Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type. Temperate grassland regions include the Pampas of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay as well as the steppes of Eurasia. Lands typically referred to as "prairie" tend to be in North America. The term encompasses the area referred to as the Interior Lowlands of the United States, Canada and Mexico, which includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter, somewhat hillier land to the east. In the U.S., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and sizable parts of the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and western and southern Minnesota. The Central Valley of California is also a prairie. The Canadian Prairies occupy vast areas of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Prairie

    prā′ri, n. an extensive meadow or tract of land, level or rolling, without trees, and covered with tall coarse grass.—adj. Prai′ried.—ns. Prai′rie-dog, a small gregarious North American marmot; Prai′rie-hawk, the American sparrow-hawk; Prai′rie-hen, a gallinaceous North American bird: the sharp-tailed grouse; Prai′rie-war′bler, an American warbler, yellow with black spots; Prai′rie-wolf, the coyote. [Fr.,—Low L. prataria, meadow-land—L. pratum, a meadow.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Prairie

    name given by the French to an extensive tract of flat or rolling land covered with tall, waving grass, mostly destitute of trees, and forming the great central plain of North America, which extends as far N. as Canada.


  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of prairie in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of prairie in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Sample Sentences & Example Usage

  1. Garrison Keillor:

    A Prairie Home Companion.

  2. Stephen Vincent Benet:

    Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.

  3. Richard Milhous Nixon:

    The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

  4. Shawna Hartman:

    There are deep canyons, drainages and gullies that are full of heavy fuels like prairie grasses and red cedar trees. They can hold the heat for a long time and let the fire jump from one place to another.

  5. William Fullbright:


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