Definitions for prairie

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prairie prai·rie

Spelling: [prair-ee]

IPA: /ˈprɛər i/

Prairie is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in prairie (aeiiprr).

Definitions for prairie

noun

1. an extensive, level or slightly undulating, mostly treeless tract of land in the Mississippi valley, characterized by a highly fertile soil and originally covered with coarse grasses, and merging into drier plateaus in the west. Compare pampas, savanna, steppe.
2. a tract of grassland; meadow.
3. (in Florida) a low, sandy tract of grassland often covered with water.
4. Southern U.S. wet grassland; marsh.
5. (initial capital letter) a steam locomotive having a two-wheeled front truck, six driving wheels, and a two-wheeled rear truck.
6. a historical novel (1827) by James Fenimore Cooper.

Origin of prairie

1675-85; French: meadow Vulgar Latin *prātāria, equivalent to Latin prāt(um) meadow + -āria, feminine of -ārius -ary

Examples for prairie

Do you know what it means to live alone ten miles out on the prairie?

He was clad in a civilian costume, which pronouncedly smacked of the prairie.

Because there is always this about the land, about prairie and pond and mountain: they never go away.

One year later and 10 blocks away, my mother came into the world, the granddaughter of those pioneers who had roamed the prairie.

There, abandoned “ghost towns” populate the prairie fields and deserts, serving as a reminder of a not-so-distant past.

Stanley Fyles was as nearly a perfect horseman as the prairie could produce.

But this hardscrabble, prairie town, with its population of 5,000 people, cast its charm on Ballantine.

Her eyes took him in from his prairie hat to his well-booted feet.

He stands, one assumes on a porch, which overlooks a prairie.

He is a zoological fact, with his parallel in every herd of prairie dogs.