plain
An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanseAn expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
» Could you put it in plain language?
Ви можете пояснити це простими словами? — deniko
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4 sensesAn expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
Ebene
равни́наravnína
рівни́наrivnýna
A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
(poetic, rare)A lamentation.
(archaic)Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield.
- extensive tract of level open land
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side
Examples
262 sentencesCould you put it in plain language?
Ви можете пояснити це простими словами? — deniko
It's as plain as day.
Це ясно як день. — deniko
ruЭто ясно как день. — marafon
Tom was just plain wrong.
Том був просто і очевидно неправим. — deniko
She wore a plain blue dress.
deSie trug ein einfaches blaues Kleid. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Try to write in plain English.
Translations
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Origin
From Old French plain, from Latin plānum (“level ground, a plain”), neuter substantive froFrom Old French plain, from Latin plānum (“level ground, a plain”), neuter substantive from plānus (“level, even, flat”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.
From Anglo-Norman plainer, pleiner, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French pleindre, plaindre, from Latin plangere.
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plural: plainsSynonyms
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19 related wordsSee also
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