Meanings
plural flood plains
- alternativeAlternative form of floodplain.
It must have been the magnetism of the viaduct that towers over the village of Harringworth, and which crosses the flood plain of the River Welland on the border of Rutland and Northamptonshire, which drew my family to living close by when we moved to Britain's smallest county in the early 1990s.
2021 October 6, John Hillier, “Harringworth's magical viaduct”, in RAIL, number 941, pages 36–37
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
flood plain. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flood%20plain
“flood plain.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flood%20plain. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flood plain,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flood%20plain.
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