plain

B1
Pronunciation
/pleɪn/
Noun
18 definition(s)
1 Definition

A lamentation.

2 Definition

A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.

Example Sentences
  • There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
3 Definition

A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.

Example Sentences
  • A crop circle was made in a corn field.
4 Definition

A place where competitive matches are carried out.

5 Definition

Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.

6 Definition

An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.

Synonyms
flatland grassland
7 Definition

A level or flat surface.

8 Definition

A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).

9 Definition

A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)

10 Definition

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.

11 Definition

(Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.

12 Definition

An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.

13 Definition

A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

14 Definition

An airplane; an aeroplane.

15 Definition

Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called aeroplanes.

16 Definition

The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

17 Definition

A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.

18 Definition

(Northern UK) A sycamore.

Verb
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

To complain.

2 Definition

To lament, bewail.

Example Sentences
  • to plain a loss
3 Definition

To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.

4 Definition

To make plain or manifest; to explain.

Adjective
6 definition(s)
1 Definition

Flat, level.

2 Definition

Simple.

3 Definition

Obvious.

4 Definition

Open.

5 Definition

Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.

Example Sentences
  • Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face.
6 Definition

Not a trump.

Adverb
2 definition(s)
1 Definition

Simply.

Example Sentences
  • I plain forgot.
2 Definition

Plainly; distinctly.

Example Sentences
  • Tell me plain: do you love me or no?