Usually means: Flat, expansive grassland, few trees.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word prairie:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. prairie: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Prairie, prairie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prairie: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. prairie: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prairie: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prairie, prairie: Wordnik
  7. prairie: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Prairie, prairie: Wiktionary
  9. prairie: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. prairie: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. prairie: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. prairie, the prairie: Dictionary.com
  13. prairie: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. prairie: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Prairie (disambiguation), Prairie, The Prairie (film), The Prairie (novel), The Prairie: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Prairie: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. prairie: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. prairie: Rhymezone
  19. Prairie: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. PRAIRIE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. prairie: Free Dictionary
  22. prairie: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. prairie: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prairie: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. prairie: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prairie: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See prairies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Wilcox County, Alabama.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Black Township, Posey County, Indiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Mississippi.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Skagit County, Washington.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Prairie Township.
noun:  A rural town in the Shire of Flinders, Queensland, Australia.
noun:  A locality in the Shire of Loddon, Victoria, Australia.
noun:  Alternative form of Prairies [the Great Plains of North America]

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