tundra en · NOUN
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Etymology
Meanings
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(countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable) A flat and treeless Arctic biome.
The hut's walls rose without difficulty, and everything went smoothly until the problem of the roof confronted me. Of what use the four walls without a roof? And of what could a roof be made? There were the spare oars, very true. They would serve as roof-beams; but with what was I to cover them? Moss would never do. Tundra grass was impracticable. We needed the sail for the boat, and the tarpaulin had begun to leak.
1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
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(countable, error-lua-timeout, uncountable) A long stretch of something, such as time.
We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.
2018 January 2, Sara Pascoe, “We should all pick achievable resolutions – get through three days of dry January and you’re a hero to me”, in The Guardian:When you stood at the gulf of unknowing, / When you saw the great tundra of time, / And you cried for the winds to come blowing, / And you called a monsoon from the tides of the moon, / 'Cause the roads were all dusty and dry.
1991, Dar Williams, “Calamity John”, in All My Heroes Are Dead:Putting on paper exactly what steps I need to take for each project does promote peace of mind, I find. And in my eagerness to tick items off on my "next action" lists, my productivity ramps up. Still, there are days of backsliding. I go to research something online, but once out on the wild Web, lose my way—and vast tundras of time—wandering further away from whatever I was looking for with each click of the mouse.
2009 December 22, Louisa Kamps, “The Distraction Diet”, in Elle:His wife and he were childhood sweethearts; he had known her for 25 years. (He will call her “my wife” throughout, just as he cannot bear to name his two sons, however carefully and lovingly he will eventually describe them. They remain “the older one” and “the younger one.”) There are tundras of time for him to cross and cross again as he recalls their life together and its sudden end: a quarter‐century of quotidian love and bruises and the ultimate estrangement of long familiarity.
1979 August 12, Ivan Gold, “One Man's Family”, in The New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tundras | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
tundra wolf · steppe-tundra · tundra vole · tundra swan · tundra tyre · tundra tire · tundra bean goose · tundral · Tundra Nenets
Translations (80)
he טוּנְדְרָה (flat treeless arctic region) · tl tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · cy twndra (flat treeless arctic region) · os тундрӕ (flat treeless arctic region) · kk тундра (flat treeless arctic region) · bg ту́ндра (flat treeless arctic region) · pt tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · sh ту̑ндра (flat treeless arctic region) · tk tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · sl tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · hi तुन्द्रा (flat treeless arctic region) · aii ܛܘܼܢܕܪܵܐ (flat treeless arctic region) · nl toendra (flat treeless arctic region) · lv tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · de Tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · fr toundra (flat treeless arctic region) · ka ტუნდრა (flat treeless arctic region) · haw nakilinaka (flat treeless arctic region) · ug تۇندىرا (flat treeless arctic region) · fi tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · sq tundër (flat treeless arctic region) · el τούνδρα (flat treeless arctic region) · is freðmýri (flat treeless arctic region) · nb tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · ko 툰드라 (flat treeless arctic region) · hy տունդրա (flat treeless arctic region) · uz tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · it tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · sah туундара (flat treeless arctic region) · nn tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · vi lãnh nguyên (flat treeless arctic region) · gl tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · es tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · da tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · ja ツンドラ (flat treeless arctic region) · hi टुंड्रा (flat treeless arctic region) · ja 凍原 (flat treeless arctic region) · ru ту́ндра (flat treeless arctic region) · ar تُنْدْرَا (flat treeless arctic region) · ro tundră (flat treeless arctic region) · sh tȗndra (flat treeless arctic region) · ky тундра (flat treeless arctic region) · hu tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · id tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · esu nunapik (flat treeless arctic region) · izh tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · is túndra (flat treeless arctic region) · ain ヌﾌ (flat treeless arctic region) · io tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · fo frostmýra (flat treeless arctic region) · ia tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · vi đài nguyên (flat treeless arctic region) · tr kutup bozkırı (flat treeless arctic region) · pl tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · lt tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · et tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · fa توندرا (flat treeless arctic region) · af toendra (flat treeless arctic region) · eo tundro (flat treeless arctic region) · tg тундра (flat treeless arctic region) · tr tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · cmn 苔原 (flat treeless arctic region) · mn тундр (flat treeless arctic region) · mk ту́ндра (flat treeless arctic region) · cmn 凍原 /冻原 (flat treeless arctic region) · ca tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · uk ту́ндра (flat treeless arctic region) · az tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · ga tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · be ту́ндра (flat treeless arctic region) · vo muskän (flat treeless arctic region) · fo tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · cjs кӧдре (flat treeless arctic region) · el τούντρα (flat treeless arctic region) · vi đồng rêu (flat treeless arctic region) · cmn 凍土層 /冻土层 (flat treeless arctic region) · sk tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · cs tundra (flat treeless arctic region) · kjh кӧдіре (flat treeless arctic region) · sv tundra (flat treeless arctic region)