plains
Because it is a word with a single syllable, plains is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofplains
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
Example: "There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field."
- A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
Example: "A crop circle was made in a corn field."
- A place where competitive matches are carried out.
- Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
- A lamentation.
- To complain.
- To lament, bewail.
Example: "to plain a loss"
- To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
- To make plain or manifest; to explain.
- A level or flat surface.
- A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
- A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)
- A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
- (Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
- An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
- A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
- An airplane; an aeroplane.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called aeroplanes.
- The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
- A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
- (Northern UK) A sycamore.
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