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Prairie
01
a flat, wide area of land with no or very few trees in North America
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
prairies
02
(Chicago, Upper Midwest) a vacant lot or undeveloped piece of land, often in an urban area
Slang
Examples
They played soccer on the prairie behind our building.
