Meaning

2 senses
  1. Synonym of plain (“land of relatively constant altitude”).

  2. (Ireland, colloquial)An urban region with many flats or apartments to rent.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Ziri's commute consisted mostly in driving through flatland.

  2. Russia was vulnerable because of the flatland of what is commonly known as the Northern European Plain.

Origin

From flat + land.

From flat + land.

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Forms

plural: flatlands
Singularflatland
Pluralflatlands

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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