Plateau
['plætəʊ] or [plæ'to]
Definition
(n.) A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land.
(n.) An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.
Edited by Hilda
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Plain (elevated), table-land.
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Definition
n. a broad flat space on an elevated position: a tableland:—pl. Plateaus Plateaux (pla-tōz′).
Typist: Willard
Examples
- The fighting on the Bainsizza plateau was over and by the middle of the month the fighting for San Gabriele was about over too. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- At the front they were advancing on the Carso, they had taken Kuk across from Plava and were taking the Bainsizza plateau. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Down out of the gray rocks and the pines, the heather and the gorse, across the yellow high plateau you see it rising white and beautiful. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is a grand, irregular plateau, and looks as if it might have been created for a battle-field. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He wished that he had seen the fighting on the plateau beyond Guadalajara when they beat the Italians. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Roget, and improved by Plateau in 1829, and also by Faraday. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I had expected it to be flatter, more like a plateau. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- A British major at the club told me the Italians had lost one hundred and fifty thousand men on the Bainsizza plateau and on San Gabriele. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Editor: Quentin