Noun: plain
| Singular | plain |
| Plural | plains |
Sample Sentences
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Him the Ammonite / Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain. [1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
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1961, J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467.
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For Plato the life of the philosopher is a life of struggle towards the goal of knowledge, towards “searching the heavens and measuring the plains, in all places seeking the nature of everything as a whole”
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Fair ship, that from the Italian shore,
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Sailest the placid ocean-plains
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With my lost Arthur’s loved remains,
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Spread thy full wings, and waft him o’er. [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:]
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You have stormed no town and found the money there ; neither did you find it in the plains of Plassey after the defeat of the Nawab [1899, Alexander John Arbuthnot, Lord Clive: The Foundation of British Rule in India:]
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Lead forth my soldiers to the plain. [c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:]
Nouns inflected like plain
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French plain, from Latin plānum (“level ground, a plain”), neuter substantive from plānus (“level, even, flat”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane. See: Latin Nouns '
plānum'.
Verbs referencing "plain"
Dutch Nouns
plein, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
plen, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
plen, Danish Nouns
plæne.