Definitions for terrain

terrain ter·rain

Spelling: [tuh-reyn]
IPA: /təˈreɪn/

Terrain is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in terrain (aeinrrt).

Definitions for terrain

noun

  1. a tract of land, especially as considered with reference to its natural features, military advantages, etc.
  2. Geology. terrane.

Origin of terrain

1720-30; French ≪ Vulgar Latin *terrānum, noun use of neuter of *terrānus of land. See terra, -an

Examples for terrain

For a few minutes there was silence, as Seaton studied the terrain beneath them.

Pearson did note that laws regulating this terrain can be useful in some very narrow circumstances.

The man with the lantern walked straight to the point of the terrain.

As forbidding as this terrain is, there is another force at work on the ocean surface – the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

It is this kind of terrain that makes this country so hard to secure.

It depends on the strengths of the team members and the terrain.

The drawback was that the terrain in front of Bradley made success very costly.

There came a new swaying that was not the roughness of the terrain.

Where the terrain was level enough, hundreds of jack rabbits were seen.

Jan, his head just above ground level, surveyed the terrain.

Word Value for terrain
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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