terrain
Meanings
Plural: terrains
Noun
- a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential
- "they decided to attack across the rocky terrain"
- A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
- An area of land or the particular features of it.
- The surface of the earth; the ground.
Origin / Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 7
terrain is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordterrain is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
terrain is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
terrain is a valid Words With Friends word