Synonyms:
tableland, plateau
Meaning: a relatively flat highland
Usage examples
They approached the plateau.
Every sign points to getting away off this plateau.
The convicts had left the plateau nearly half-an-hour before, having devastated it!
By ten o'clock next morning we had breakfasted, and were trailing toward the summit of the plateau.
However, it was not probable that the convicts would have yet left the plateau of Prospect Heights.
The country develops into an undulating plateau, which is under general cultivation, as cultivation goes in Asiatic Turkey.
The plateau being somewhat tilted towards the west, this spot on which we had paused commanded a wide prospect on either hand.
Dick paused no longer, but ran rapidly along the path until he emerged upon the open plateau and proceeded toward the center of the town.
Conseil rejoined me, and gluing his huge copper capsule to mine, his eyes gave me a friendly greeting. But this lofty plateau measured only a few fathoms, and soon we reentered Our Element.
By trailing through Egan Canyon we cut the backbone of the mountain range and now, at an altitude of several hundred feet above the plain, were climbing higher and higher the rugged plateau, until we reached Nine Mile, and unpacked.