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Definition: Prairie |
PrairieNoun1. A treeless grassy plain. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prairie" was first used: 17th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | An extensive tract of level or rolling land that was originally treeless and grass covered. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a prairie, denotes that you will enjoy ease, and even luxury and unobstructed progress. An undulating prairie, covered with growing grasses and flowers, signifies joyous happenings. A barren prairie, represents loss and sadness through the absence of friends. To be lost on one, is a sign of sadness and ill luck. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A prairie is an area of land of low topographic relief that principally supports grasses and herbs, with few trees, and is generally of a mesic (moderate) climate. Most of the Great Plains is considered prairie. Most of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, and much of Missouri and Minnesota is also prairie. Most of the prairie has been converted into farmland in the United States.In Canada, the term "prairie provinces" or "the prairies" refers to the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
Significant preserved areas of prairie include:
- Bong Recreational Area, in Kenosha County, Wisconsin
- Nine-Mile Prairie, Nebraska
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prairie."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Prairie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of 2000, the population is 9,539. The county has two county seats, Des Arc and De Valls Bluff.
Prairie County was formed on 25 October 1846 and was named after the Grand Prairie of eastern Arkansas.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,750 km² (676 mi²). 1,673 km² (646 mi²) of it is land and 77 km² (30 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 4.41% water.
Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 9,539 people, 3,894 households, and 2,795 families residing in the county. The population density is 6/km² (15/mi²). There are 4,790 housing units at an average density of 3/km² (7/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 84.83% White, 13.71% Black or African American, 0.36% Native American, 0.18% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.28% from other races, and 0.64% from two or more races. 0.81% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.There are 3,894 households out of which 30.60% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.60% are married couples living together, 11.10% have a female householder with no husband present, and 28.20% are non-families. 25.60% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.20% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.41 and the average family size is 2.88.
In the county the population is spread out with 23.90% under the age of 18, 7.50% from 18 to 24, 26.10% from 25 to 44, 25.10% from 45 to 64, and 17.30% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 97.00 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 93.40 males.
The median income for a household in the county is $29,990, and the median income for a family is $36,131. Males have a median income of $28,413 versus $18,808 for females. The per capita income for the county is $15,907. 15.50% of the population and 12.20% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 21.00% are under the age of 18 and 16.80% are 65 or older.
Cities and towns
- De Valls Bluff
- Des Arc
- Fredonia (Biscoe)
- Hazen
- Ulm
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Prairie County, Arkansas."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Plain | Noun: plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau. (level); campagna; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla, playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega. |
Vegetable | Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia. |
Vehicle | Truck, tram; cariole, carriole; limber, tumbrel, pontoon; barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair, sedan chair; chaise; palankeen, palanquin; litter, brancard, crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon, conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett, dearborn, dump cart, hack, hackery, jigger, kittereen, mailstate, manomotor, rig, rockaway, prairie schooner, shay, sloven, team, tonga, wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle, bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Darkness warshed over the Dude - darker'n a black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) Now, I suppose you're all wondering just what in the heck you're doing out here in the middle of a prairie in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) Dad, I'm prairie dogging back here (Rat Race; writing credit: Andy Breckman) You know, like when a prairie dog sticks his head in and out of the ground (Rat Race; writing credit: Andy Breckman) | |
Tongue Twisters | Plague-bearing prairie dogs. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Little House on the Prairie (1974) La Prairie (1968) Prairie Thunder (1967) Cash Advances for Prairie Grain (1961) Prairie Bonanza (1959) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wilber and Orville Wright with Flyer II at Huffman Prairie. Credit: NASA. |  | Leveling along the trail to Prairie Portage Level party of J. D. Thurmond. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Pond cypress or prairie sentinel - Taxodium ascendens. A deciduous conifer with upright growing needles. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Lightning over the prairie. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). |
 | Terraces and grass protect the land and improve water quality in the Prairie Rose Lake in Shelby County, Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Terraces help protect the land from soil erosion and improve the water quality in Prairie Rose Lake in Shelby County, Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Prairie dog. Credit: USDA. |  | Prairie chicken. Credit: USDA. |
 | Prairie Dog. Credit: Unknown. |  | Black tailed prairie dog, standing. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Prairie from I-29" by Ryan Glanzer Commentary: "A field in South Dakota taken while driving down I-29 near Trent." | "Mountain View 2" by Chico Iuliano Commentary: "Alpine prairie with valley in the backdrop." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | So butchers rake the tongues of bison out of the prairie grass, regardless of the torn and drooping plant |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Prairie dogs can harbor fleas infected with plague bacteria. (references) | |
A. Fleas become infected by feeding on rodents, such as the chipmunks, prairie dogs, ground squirrels, mice, and other mammals that are infected with the bacteria Yersinia pestis. (references) | ||
Many other rodent species, for instance, prairie dogs, wood rats, chipmunks, and other ground squirrels and their fleas, suffer plague outbreaks and some of these occasionally serve as sources of human infection. (references) | ||
Business | Currently it houses both pioneer retailers as Rivoli, L’Oreal, Wella, Clinique and others and fairly new players such as Articoli, La Prairie, Helena Rubinstein and others. (references) | |
Economic History | Canada | In the last two years, for example, prairie exports to, and imports from, the United States have risen by over by 58 percent and 25 percent, respectively. (references) |
Canada | The three Prairie provinces have the lowest unemployment rates in the country. (references) | |
Canada | The Prairie provinces -- Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta -- have rich natural resources that have long provided a strong economy. (references) | |
Minorities | Canada | Provinces other than Quebec often lack adequate French-language schooling and health services, which is of concern to local francophones, although French-language schools and French immersion programs are reported to be thriving in all three prairie provinces. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Tom Brokaw | Well, I think it's the nature of the people who came there and settled the prairie under very difficult circumstances. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Prairie" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Prairie" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.44% | 114 | 30,294 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.56% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 117 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "prairie" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Prairie | Last name | 200 | 34,959 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Prairie, AL 2. Prairie, MS |
Expressions using "prairie": Bailey's Prairie ♦ Belle Prairie City ♦ big Prairie ♦ blacktail prairie dog ♦ blooming Prairie ♦ Brice Prairie ♦ brush Prairie ♦ burnt Prairie ♦ Dardenne Prairie ♦ East Prairie ♦ Eden Prairie ♦ Fancy Prairie ♦ Fords Prairie ♦ Garden Prairie ♦ Grand Prairie ♦ Grays Prairie ♦ greater prairie chicken ♦ Kimball Prairie ♦ La Prairie ♦ lesser prairie chicken ♦ Lester Prairie ♦ Long Prairie ♦ North Prairie ♦ Parkers Prairie ♦ Pine Prairie ♦ Pleasant Prairie ♦ pomme de prairie ♦ prairie anemone ♦ prairie aster ♦ prairie berry ♦ prairie biome ♦ prairie chicken ♦ Prairie City ♦ prairie clover ♦ prairie coneflower ♦ prairie cordgrass ♦ Prairie County ♦ prairie crab ♦ Prairie Creek ♦ prairie dock ♦ prairie dog ♦ Prairie du Chien ♦ Prairie Du Roche ♦ Prairie du Rocher ♦ Prairie Du Sac ♦ prairie falcon ♦ Prairie Farm ♦ prairie fowl ♦ prairie fox ♦ prairie gentian ♦ prairie golden aster ♦ prairie gourd ♦ prairie gourd vine ♦ prairie grass ♦ prairie grouse ♦ Prairie Grove ♦ prairie hare ♦ prairie hawk ♦ prairie hen ♦ Prairie Hill ♦ Prairie Home ♦ prairie itch ♦ prairie lotus ♦ prairie mallow ♦ prairie marmot ♦ prairie mimosa ♦ prairie mole ♦ prairie orchid ♦ prairie oyster ♦ prairie pigeon ♦ prairie plover ♦ prairie rattler ♦ prairie rattlesnake ♦ Prairie Ridge ♦ prairie rocket ♦ Prairie Rose ♦ prairie sage ♦ prairie sagewort ♦ prairie schooner ♦ prairie smoke ♦ prairie snake ♦ prairie snipe ♦ prairie soil ♦ prairie squirrel ♦ prairie star ♦ prairie State ♦ prairie sunflower ♦ prairie trefoil ♦ prairie trillium ♦ prairie turnip ♦ Prairie View ♦ Prairie Village ♦ prairie vole ♦ prairie wagon ♦ prairie warbler ♦ prairie willow ♦ prairie wolf ♦ Pretty Prairie ♦ queen of the prairie ♦ Reddish Prairie soil ♦ Rolling Prairie. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "prairie": prairie-bound, prairie-hen, prairie-like, prairie-style. | |
Ending with "prairie": Portage-la-prairie. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
prairie dog | 2,398 | prairie meadow | 112 |
eden prairie minnesota | 1,125 | prairie dog picture | 111 |
grand prairie tx | 658 | pure prairie league | 110 |
prairie home companion | 576 | prairie dog hunting | 98 |
prairie | 553 | eden prairie | 93 |
little house on the prairie | 537 | grande prairie alberta | 86 |
sun prairie wisconsin | 245 | prairie du chien | 85 |
grande prairie | 224 | eden prairie school | 84 |
grand prairie | 196 | prairie view university | 80 |
prairie view a and m university | 191 | long prairie mn | 76 |
prairie du chien wisconsin | 189 | prairie view | 72 |
grand isd prairie | 186 | macks prairie wings | 65 |
pleasant prairie wisconsin | 173 | eden prairie high school | 60 |
pet prairie dog | 160 | grand next prairie stage | 59 |
la prairie | 160 | ford grand prairie | 57 |
city of grand prairie | 147 | prairie symphony | 57 |
conner prairie | 144 | eden prairie center | 56 |
grand prairie texas | 140 | portage la prairie | 55 |
prairie state college | 138 | prairie knight casino | 54 |
prairie view a m | 119 | grande prairie canada | 54 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "prairie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | preri, stepë (pampas, steppe, veld, veldt). (various references) | |
Arabic | مرعى طبيعي, مرعى صناعي, مرعى (grassland, grazing, grazing land, pasturage, pasture), مرج (grassland, meadow, pasture), نجد أجرد. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | saoki. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | степен (degree, exponent, extent, gradations, grade, length, magnitude, notch, order, peg, pitch, power, rate, remove), степ (steppe), прерия (savanna, savannah), прериен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 大草原 . (various references) | |
Czech | prérie, step (steppe). (various references) | |
Danish | prærie. (various references) | |
Dutch | prairie. (various references) | |
Esperanto | prerio. (various references) | |
Farsi | فلات چمن زار, مرغزار (Lawn, Meadow, Turf), چمنزار (Grassland), چمن (Arbor, Grass, Green, Lawn, Meadow, Turf). (various references) | |
Finnish | preeria. (various references) | |
French | prairie. (various references) | |
German | Prärie (plain). (various references) | |
Greek | μεγάλη και άδενδροσ πεδιάσ, λειμών (mead, meadow). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פרריה, ערבה (desert, dry land, plain, steppe, wilderness), בר (except, open field, outside of, wild, without). (various references) | |
Hungarian | préri. (various references) | |
Indonesian | padang rumput (alp, grassland, meadow, pasture, steppe). (various references) | |
Italian | prateria (grassland, mead). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 原 (field, moor, plain, tundra, wilderness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くさはら (grass-covered plain, grasslands, meadows, savannah, steppe), そうげん (grass-covered plain, grasslands, meadows, savannah, steppe), こうや (8 p.m., a plain, desert, deserted land, dyer, suburban fields, vast plain, wasteland, wilderness, wilds), あれの (desert, deserted land, vast plain, wasteland, wild land, wilderness, wilds), あらの (desert, deserted land, vast plain, wasteland, wilderness, wilds), へいげん (moor, plain), はら (abdomen, belly, field, moor, plain, stomach, tundra, wilderness). (various references) | |
Korean | 대초원 (savanna, Savannah). (various references) | |
Manx | faasagh faiyr (pampas). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airiepray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pradaria (grassland). (various references) | |
Romanian | prerie. (various references) | |
Russian | прерия. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prerijski, prerija, ravnica (dead level, pampas, plain, wold). (various references) | |
Spanish | pradera (grassland, meadow). (various references) | |
Swedish | prärie. (various references) | |
Turkish | kır (bent, fell, field, frosty, Gray, grayish, grayness, grey, greyish, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, moor, moorland, wilderness), geniş yeşillik düzlük, çayır (grass, grassland, hayfield, herbage, mead, meadow, pasture, verdure). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | прерія. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đồng c. (various references) | |
Welsh | paith. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pratum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prairie": prairies. (additional references) | |
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"Prairie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paihia, pairi, Pairic, pairy, Paivio, Pararge, Parigi, Parilia, paryri, Phaire, Phairy, Porfirio, Porirua, praecipe, Praedrag, praerie, prairaie, praire, prairy, Prakrit, prarie, preopria, pripria, proiri. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prairie" (pronounced pre"rē) |
| 3 | -e" r ē | airy, Barre, Berry, Bury, Canary, cherry, Clary, dairy, Derry, Jerry, Kerry, eyrie, fairy, ferry, Glengarry, hairy, Harry, marry, merry, nary, Parry, Perry, remarry, scary, sherry, skerry, Tarry, Terry, unwary, vary, very, wary, wherry. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-p-r-r" | |
-1 letter: airier, rapier, repair. | |
-2 letters: airer, parer, prier, raper, riper. | |
-3 letters: aper, pair, pare, parr, pear, peri, pier, rape, rare, reap, rear, ripe. | |
-4 letters: air, ape, are, ear, era, err, ire, par, pea, per, pia, pie, rap, rei, rep, ria, rip. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, ar, er, pa, pe, pi, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: impairer, prairies. | |
+2 letters: disrepair, impairers, parricide, primaries, repairing. | |
+3 letters: dispraiser, disrepairs, impresario, parricides, pericardia, pericrania, perineuria, presidiary, primiparae, tripartite. | |
+4 letters: apriorities, dispraisers, impresarios, interparish, parishioner, partitioner, pericardial, pericardium, pericranial, pericranium, periphrasis, plagiarizer, precritical, preliminary, pretraining, proteinuria, repartition, reprivatize, respiration. | |
+5 letters: hairsplitter, imperatorial, overpraising, parishioners, partitioners, patriarchies, pericarditis, perichondria, periphrastic, perspiration, plagiarizers, polarimetric, practitioner, preamplifier, precipitator, prehistorian, premigration, preordaining, previsionary, privateering, proteinurias, reappraising, repartitions, repatriating, repatriation, repolarizing, reprimanding, repristinate, reprivatized, reprivatizes, respirations, serigraphies, superciliary. | |
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