pampas – English noun declension

English noun forms of pampas

Noun: pampas
Singularpampas
Pluralpampas

Sample Sentences

  • The pampas are flat, and present no significant barriers to the building of roads or railways. Even more important, the pampas are close to the major Argentine ports of Buenos Aires, Rosario, and Bahia Blanca. [1987, Carl E. Solberg, John D. Wirth, Thomas C. Heller, editors, The Prairies and the Pampas: Agrarian Policy in Canada and Argentina, 1880-1930, page 113:]
  • The pampas is an ecological wonderland, teeming with life and natural beauty. The pampas is renowned for its sprawling grasslands, which are home to unique species of grasses, including Paspalum, Aristida, and Stipa. [2025, Joann Mendez, Pampas Paradise: Embracing the Natural Beauty of Argentina's Grasslands:]
  • […] that the pampa is above all, fit for the cereals. […] that is to say, on plains without trees analogous to our pampas, as also the maize on the savannahs which are the pampas of Louisiana, […] the soil of the pampa is "excessively fertile," and […] [1876, Richard Napp, The Argentine Republic, written in German by Richard Napp, assisted by several fellow-writers for the Central Argentine Commission on the centenary exhibition at Philadelphia (with several Maps), page 289]

Nouns inflected like pampas

cement works, Old World ROM, mythopoetics, zhenniao, ichimon, seinen, sedoka, semese, sentai, senryū, senbei, whapuku, whapuka, selbri, Cinghalese, sayori, sansho, sanies, sanmai, sangza, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From (plural of) American Spanish pampa, from Quechua pampa (“land, ground”). See: Spanish Nouns 'pampa'.