Prairies

Proper noun

Meaning

the Great Plains of North America

the Prairie provinces of Canada

short form of Canadian Prairies (the western grasslands of Canada east of the Rockies and west of the Great Lakes)

Synonyms

Phrases with the word

Examples

I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures. Geronimo

These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name- The Prairies. William Cullen Bryant

I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed. Buffalo Bill

My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. Buffalo Bill

Where the wild savage roves, and the broad prairies spread, The fallen - despised - will again go ahead. Davy Crockett

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. Jules Verne

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