Usually means: Flat, expansive area of land.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word plain:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. plain: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. plain, plain, plain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. plain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. plain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. plain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Plain, plain: Wordnik
  7. plain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Plain, plain: Wiktionary
  9. plain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. plain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. plain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. plain: Dictionary.com
  13. plain (adj.), plain (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. plain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Plain (disambiguation), Plain (landform), Plain, The Plain (West Point), The Plain (band), The Plain (disambiguation), The Plain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Plain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. plain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. plain: Rhymezone
  19. plain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. plain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Plain: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. plain: Free Dictionary
  23. plain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. plain: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. plain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plain (geography), Plain (landform), plain: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLAIN: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Plain (geography), Plain (landform), plain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. plain: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Plain (geography), Plain (landform), plain: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. PLAIN: Acronym Finder
  3. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  4. plain: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Plain: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. plain: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. plain: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See plainer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
adjective:  Simple, unaltered.
adjective:  Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.
adjective:  Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.
adjective:  Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.
adjective:  (of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.
adjective:  (computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
adjective:  Obvious.
adjective:  Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.
adjective:  Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).
adjective:  Open.
adjective:  Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.
adjective:  Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
adjective:  Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
adjective:  (card games) Not a trump.
adverb:  (colloquial) Simply.
adverb:  (archaic) Plainly; distinctly.
noun:  An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.
noun:  A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.
noun:  (archaic) Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.
noun:  (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
verb:  (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
adjective:  (obsolete) Full, complete in number or extent.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (obsolete) Alternative spelling of plane: a flat geometric field. [A level or flat surface.]

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