Prairie
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɹɛəɹi/ in accents without the "Mary-merry merger"
- IPA: ˈpɹɛɹi in accents with the "Mary-merry merger"
- Rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Origin
From French prairie.
Full definition of prairie
Noun
prairie
(plural prairies)- An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher Chapter 1, As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.