plains

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of plain

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of plain

name

1. (US, with-definite-article)The Great Plains region of North America.
2. (British, India, with-definite-article)The lowland regions of India from which colonial administrators and their families relocated to higher-elevation hill stations with cooler climates during the summer months.

   “It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers.”

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11. A village in North Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS7966).