Synonyms for plateaus

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pla-toh or, esp. British, plat-oh

Phonetic Transcription : plæˈtoʊ or, esp. British, ˈplæt oʊ

Définition of plateaus

Origin : 1796, "elevated tract of relatively level land," from French plateau "table-land," from Old French platel (12c.) "flat piece of metal, wood, etc.," diminutive of plat "flat surface or thing," noun use of adjective plat "flat, stretched out" (12c.), perhaps from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Greek platys "flat, wide, broad" (see plaice). Meaning "stage at which no progress is apparent" is attested from 1897, originally in psychology of learning. In reference to sexual stimulation from 1960.

noun level; flat, often high, land

Example sentences :

Before Trieste itself could be reached these plateaus had to be crossed.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) » by Various

The approach to this is not so abrupt from the north as that to the plateaus themselves.
Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) » by Various

What are the chief products of mountains, of plateaus, of lowland plains?
Extract from : « Commercial Geography » by Jacques W. Redway

So they journeyed on—now in the sunlight of the plateaus, now in the shadows of the forest.
Extract from : « The Story of Wool » by Sara Ware Bassett

How the cayotes or wolves of these plateaus, and of the Plains, manage to live, it is hard to say.
Extract from : « Across America » by James F. Rusling

Upper Normandy is a series of plateaus, not unlike Picardy and Artois.
Extract from : « Rambles in Normandy » by Francis Miltoun

Plateaus rose from 1500 to more than 2500 meters in altitude.
Extract from : « The Penitente Moradas of Abiqui » by Richard E. Ahlborn

Thus on mountains and plateaus it is considerably less than in lowlands.
Extract from : « Meteorology » by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

Wheat is raised, to some extent, in the river bottoms, and on the plateaus of the interior.
Extract from : « Our Southern Highlanders » by Horace Kephart

These plants also are less closely limited to the steppes and plateaus.
Extract from : « The New Stone Age in Northern Europe » by John M. Tyler

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