Noun: playa
| Singular | playa |
| Plural | playas |
Sample Sentences
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Beyond the valley below lay a playa, a vast dried-white lake bed, its ends reaching farther than they could see. [2020, Diane Cook, The New Wilderness, Oneworld Publications, page 66:]
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“We are also deploying buses to Gerlach to take people to Reno who might walk off the playa. See our recommendations on when walking is viable or not. This is not likely a 24-hour operation at this time.” [2023 September 3, Michael Sainato, “Officials investigate death at Burning Man as thousands stranded by floods”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like playa
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
Borrowed from Spanish playa (“beach”). Doublet of plage. See: Spanish Nouns '
playa'.