Dictionary

Plains en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /pleɪnz/

Meanings

1. (US, with-definite-article) The Great Plains region of North America.
2. (British, India, with-definite-article) The lowland regions of India from which colonial administrators and their families relocated to higher-elevation hill stations with cooler climates during the summer months.
   • It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers. 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 50:
3. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A ghost town in California.
4. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A minor city in Sumter County, Georgia.
5. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A city in Meade County, Kansas.
6. A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Forsyth Township, Marquette County, Michigan.
7. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A town in Sanders County, Montana.
8. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A township and census-designated place therein, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
9. A number of places in the United States: ▸ An unincorporated community in Borden County, Texas.
10. A number of places in the United States: ▸ A town, the county seat of Yoakum County, Texas.
11. A village in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7966).