Mesa

Pronunciation

• UK enPR: māʹsÉ™, IPA: /ˈmeɪ.sÉ™/

Origin

First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa ("table"), from Latin mēnsa.

Full definition of mesa

Noun

1. Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edgesA few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.
• 27 November 2013, John Grotzinger, The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36], Those multitoned buttes and mesas the Grand Canyon, and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away Mars.

Related terms

• potrero
• butte
• tuya

Anagrams

• ASME
• mase
• same
• seam