plains

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/pleɪnz/

proper noun

The Great Plains region of North America.

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Meanings

plains1

noun
  1. pluralplural of plain
verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of plain

Plains2

proper noun
  1. USwith definite articleThe Great Plains region of North America.
  2. BritishIndiawith definite articleThe lowland regions of India from which colonial administrators and their families relocated to higher-elevation hill stations with cooler climates during the summer months.

    It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers.

    1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 50
  3. A number of places in the United States:
    1. A ghost town in California.
    2. A minor city in Sumter County, Georgia.
    3. A city in Meade County, Kansas.
    4. An unincorporated community in Forsyth Township, Marquette County, Michigan.
    5. A town in Sanders County, Montana.
    6. A township and census-designated place therein, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
    7. An unincorporated community in Borden County, Texas.
    8. A town, the county seat of Yoakum County, Texas.
  4. A village in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7966).

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
great plains

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with plains

remainsgainslanesgrainsbrainspainsmainsKeynesrainsstainsHainescanesDanesreinspanesmanescremainsplum rains
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Sounds the same

planesplanesplanes

Anagrams

spinalsplainpansil
Cite this entry
APA

plains. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plains

MLA

“plains.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plains. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “plains,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/plains.

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