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Another word for terrain

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Noun

  1. The character, natural features, and configuration of land

      1. Detailed, precise description of a place or region.
      2. Graphic representation of the surface features of a place or region on a map, indicating their relative positions and elevations.
      3. A description or an analysis of a structured entity, showing the relations among its components:
    Idioms:
    See also:

    surface

  2. A sphere of activity, experience, study, or interest

      1. A container of flexible material, such as paper, plastic, or leather, that is used for carrying or storing items.
      2. A handbag; a purse.
      3. A piece of hand luggage, such as a suitcase or satchel.
      1. The earth, especially together with the life it supports:
      2. The universe:
      3. Humankind considered as social beings; human society:
      1. An area of land; a region.
      2. The land and waters under the jurisdiction of a government.
      3. A political subdivision of a country.
      1. Being in a position or in circumstances that place one under the power or authority of another or others:
      2. Prone; disposed:
      3. Likely to incur or receive; exposed:
      1. Something seen by a viewer; a view or prospect.
      2. The place where an action or event occurs:
      3. The place in which the action of a play, movie, novel, or other narrative occurs; a setting.
      1. A community or territory over which a sovereign rules; a kingdom.
      2. An area or sphere, as of knowledge or activity:
      1. A territory governed as an administrative or political unit of a country or empire.
      2. A division of territory under the jurisdiction of a metropolitan.
      3. Areas of a country situated away from the capital or population center.
      1. The path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body due to their mutual gravitational attraction.
      2. One complete revolution of such a body.
      3. The path of a body in a field of force surrounding another body; for example, the movement of an atomic electron in relation to a nucleus.
      1. A broad, level, open expanse of land.
      2. A meadow:
      3. A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop:
      1. A territory over which rule or control is exercised.
      2. A sphere of activity, influence, or knowledge:
      3. The set of all possible values of an independent variable of a function.
      1. A principal administrative division of a government:
      2. A division of a business specializing in a particular product or service:
      3. A division of a school or college dealing with a particular field of knowledge:
      1. A plane curve everywhere equidistant from a given fixed point, the center.
      2. A planar region bounded by a circle.
      3. Something, such as a ring, shaped like such a plane curve.
      1. A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority.
      2. The office or district of a bailiff.
      1. An enclosed area for the presentation of sports events and spectacles.
      2. A building housing such an area.
      3. A place or scene where forces contend or events unfold:
      1. A roughly bounded part of the space on a surface; a region:
      2. A surface, especially an open, unoccupied piece of ground:
      3. A distinct part or section, as of a building, set aside for a specific function:
    See also:

    territory

  3. A particular area used for or associated with a specific individual or activity

      1. A surface layer of earth containing a dense growth of grass and its matted roots; sod.
      2. An artificial substitute for such a grassy layer, as on a playing field.
      3. A piece cut from a layer of earth or sod.
      1. An area of land; a region.
      2. The land and waters under the jurisdiction of a government.
      3. A political subdivision of a country.
      1. A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space:
      2. A portion of the earth's surface distinguished from others by some characteristic:
      3. A bioregion.
      1. A division of an area, as for administrative purposes.
      2. A region or locality marked by a distinguishing feature:
      3. To mark off or divide into districts.
      1. A nation or state.
      2. The territory of a nation or state; land.
      3. The people of a nation or state; populace:
    See also:

    territory

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Another word for terrain

Noun
  1. See also:

    area

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The terrain was rough, covered with brush choked ravines and sharp granite bluffs.

  • He gazed out at the terrain below.

  • She leaned against a wall, overlooking a stretch of rocky terrain punctuated with patches of yellow-green grass.

  • The transportation was well organized in spite of the difficulties of the terrain.

  • By the accident of the terrain, or perhaps, following the experience of Breitenfeld, by design, the right of the Swedes was somewhat nearer to the enemy than the left.

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