prairie
发音
How to pronounce prairie in British English:
英 [ˈpreəri]
How to pronounce prairie in American English:
美 [ˈpreri]
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- Noun:
- a treeless grassy plain
单词词源
- prairie
- prairie: [18] Prairie comes ultimately from Latin prātum ‘meadow’ (source also of French pré ‘meadow’). From it was derived Vulgar Latin *prātāria, which passed into English via French prairie. The word was from the start almost exclusively used with reference to the plains of North America.
- prairie (n.)
- tract of level or undulating grassland in North America, by 1773, from French prairie "meadow, grassland," from Old French praerie "meadow, pastureland" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *prataria, from Latin pratum "meadow," originally "a hollow." The word existed in Middle English as prayere, but was lost and reborrowed to describe the American plains. Prairie dog is attested from 1774; prairie schooner "immigrant's wagon" is from 1841. Illinois has been the Prairie State since at least 1861. In Latin, Neptunia prata was poetic for "the sea."
双语例句
- 1. A supercell thunderstorm rolls across the montana prairie at sunset .
- 2. Buffalo are coming back to the american prairie
- 3. Now transplant that image to the american prairie .
- 4. Part of the restoration project requires the return of another crucial species : the prairie dog .
- 5. Mr layton was unique in his ability to unite the ndp 's prairie and urban bases while attracting new quebec recruits .