GREAT PLAINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Plains mean? 

• GREAT PLAINS (noun)
  The noun GREAT PLAINS has 1 sense:

1. a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans

  Familiarity information: GREAT PLAINS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT PLAINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Great Plains; Great Plains of North America

Instance hypernyms:

prairie (a treeless grassy plain)

Meronyms (parts of "Great Plains"):

dust bowl (a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s)

Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)

Holonyms ("Great Plains" is a part of...):

North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)

 Context examples 

From June 1 through July 15, researchers from across North America will fan out each evening across the Great Plains, where storms are more common at night than during the day.

(Scientists tackle mystery of thunderstorms that strike at night, NSF)