flatland

English

Etymology

From flat +‎ land.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈflatlənd/, /ˈflatland/
Hyphenation: flat‧land

Noun

flatland (plural flatlands)

Any land of relatively constant altitude (with no hills).
(Ireland, informal) An urban region with many flats or apartments to rent.
- 2005, Esme Conway, Into Angels, page 18:
  Back then, at eighteen, in her humble bed-sit, in Dublin's 'flatland', she was lonely.

Hypernyms

land

Derived terms

flatlander

Translations

land of relatively constant altitude

Czech: rovina (cs) f
Finnish: tasamaa, tasanko (fi)

Serbo-Croatian: ravnica (sh) f

References

Flatland (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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