terrain

See also Terrain

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowing from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

terrain (plural terrains)

1. (geology) A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
2. An area of land or the particular features of it.

Related terms

• terra
• terrace
• terracotta
• terrane
• terrene
• terrestrial
• terrier
• territorial
• territory

Translations

area

• Chamicuro: c̈hijta
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地域 (cmn) (dìyù), 地形 (cmn) (dìxíng)

• Czech: terén (cs) m
• Dutch: terrein (nl)
• Esperanto: tereno (eo)
• French: terrain (fr) m
• German: Terrain (de) n
• Greek: έδαφος (el) (édafos) n, έκταση (el) (éktasi) f

• Hungarian: terep (hu)
• Indonesian: medan (id)
• Japanese: 地域 (ja) (ちいき, chiiki), 地形 (ja) (ちけい, chikei)
• Polish: teren (pl) m
• Portuguese: terreno (pt) m
• Romanian: teren (ro) n
• Russian: местность (ru) (méstnostʹ) f
• Serbo-Croatian: терен (sh) m, teren (sh) m
• Spanish: terreno (es) m

External links

• terrain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• terrain in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• retrain
• trainer

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin terranum, from Latin terrenum.

Pronunciation

• audio (CA)

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Noun

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. ground, landscape, terrain

   Un nouveau terrain de football a été aménagé l'an dernier.

Anagrams

• rentrai
• ternira
• trainer, traîner

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) terren
• (Sutsilvan) taragn
• (Surmiran) teragn

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin terranum, from Latin terrenum.

Noun

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. (Puter, Vallader) land, soil
2. (Puter) country, land

Synonyms

• (country, land):
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pajais