Definitions for Plateau

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Plateau pla·teau

Spelling: [pla-toh or, esp. British, plat-oh]

IPA: /plæˈtoʊ or, esp. British, ˈplæt oʊ/

Plateau is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in Plateau (aaelptu).

Definitions for Plateau

noun

1. a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
2. a period or state of little or no growth or decline:
3. Psychology. a period of little or no apparent progress in an individual's learning, marked by an inability to increase speed, reduce number of errors, etc., and indicated by a horizontal stretch in a learning curve or graph.
4. a flat stand, as for a centerpiece, sometimes extending the full length of a table.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to remain at a stable level, especially to prevent from rising or progressing:

verb (used without object)

1. to reach a state or level of little or no growth or decline, especially to stop increasing or progressing; remain at a stable level of achievement; level off:

Origin of Plateau

1785-95; French; Old French platel flat object, diminutive of plat plate¹

Examples for Plateau

Those carbs need to be burned with cardio, or else weight loss will plateau.

I saw, too, that plateau on the other side, of which I had heard; later I explored it.

On the Dana plateau, for example, by the expenditure of 32 hours of labour 48 cwt.

The drive from Mende to the plateau of Sauveterre is a curious experience.

You rise, you plateau, but at the end of the day everyone comes down.

We drive on for a mile or two till we reach the summit of the plateau.

Furthermore, until the Iranain revolution of 1979, Iranians have rarely left their plateau.

The world population may plateau physically, but we are multiplying ourselves digitally and robotically.

In those countries the study revealed little evidence of any plateau.

The third is found at the point called the plateau of Hyena.