tableland

English

Alternative forms

• table land, table-land

Etymology

From table +‎ land.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tableland (countable and uncountable, plural tablelands)

1. (geology, countable) A relatively flat region of elevated terrain, particularly in reference to surrounding terrain.

   Hypernym: landform

   Coordinate term: benchland

   Near-synonyms: mesa (often synonymous), plateau

   • 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:

     One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

2. (geology, uncountable) The land available on such a landform.

   Hypernym: land

   Coordinate term: benchland

   several acres of good tableland

Derived terms

• Central Tablelands
• Northern Tablelands
• Southern Tablelands

Translations

flat region of terrain

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臺地 / 台地 (zh) (táidì)

• Dutch: plateau (nl) n
• Esperanto: tablomonto
• Finnish: pöytävuori (fi)
• French: plateau (fr) m
• German: Tafelland n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: πλάξ f (pláx)

• Hungarian: fennsík (hu)
• Irish: ardchlár m
• Italian: altopiano (it) m, pianoro (it) m, tavoliere (it) m
• Japanese: 台地 (ja) (だいち, daichi)
• Manx: ard-halloo m
• Māori: mānia pūwhata
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: høyslette (no) m or f

• Portuguese: chapada (pt) f
• Russian: плоского́рье (ru) n (ploskogórʹje)
• Turkish: yayla (tr), plato (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: یایلا (yayla)

See also

• Great Plains
• High Plains
• plain
• prairie

References

• “tableland”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.