Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss.
synoniem: moor.
Roget 344:
plain,
table-land,
face of the country;
open country,
champaign country†;
basin,
downs,
waste,
weary waste,
desert,
wild,
steppe,
pampas,
savanna,
prairie,
heath,
common,
wold†,
veldt;
moor,
moorland;
bush;
plateau
etc.
(level)
213;
campagna†;
alkali flat,
llano;
mesa,
mesilla [U.S.],
playa;
shaking prairie,
trembling prairie;
vega [Sp.].
meadow,
mead,
haugh†,
pasturage,
park,
field,
lawn,
green,
plat,
plot,
grassplat†,
greensward,
sward,
turf,
sod,
heather;
lea,
ley,
lay;
grounds;
maidan†,
agostadero†.
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Roget 206:
height,
altitude,
elevation;
eminence,
pitch;
loftiness
etc.
adj.;
sublimity.
tallness
etc.
adj.;
stature,
procerity†;
prominence
etc.
250.
colossus
etc.
(size)
192;
giant,
grenadier,
giraffe,
camelopard.
mount,
mountain;
hill alto,
butte [U.S.],
monticle†,
fell,
knap†;
cape;
headland,
foreland†;
promontory;
ridge,
hog's back,
dune;
rising ground,
vantage ground;
down;
moor,
moorland;
Alp;
uplands,
highlands;
heights
etc.
(summit)
210;
knob,
loma†,
pena [U.S.],
picacho†,
tump†;
knoll,
hummock,
hillock,
barrow,
mound,
mole;
steeps,
bluff,
cliff,
craig†,
tor†,
peak,
pike,
clough†;
escarpment,
edge,
ledge,
brae;
dizzy height.
tower,
pillar,
column,
obelisk,
monument,
steeple,
spire,
minaret,
campanile,
turret,
dome,
cupola;
skyscraper.
pole,
pikestaff,
maypole,
flagstaff;
top mast,
topgallant mast.
ceiling
etc.
(covering)
223.
high water;
high tide,
flood tide,
spring tide.
altimetry
etc.
(angel)
244†;
batophobia†.
satellite,
spy-in-the-sky.
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Roget 180:
space,
extension,
extent,
superficial extent,
expanse,
stretch,
hyperspace;
room,
scope,
range,
field,
way,
expansion,
compass,
sweep,
swing,
spread.
dimension,
length
etc.
200;
distance
etc.
196;
size
etc.
192;
volume;
hypervolume.
latitude,
play,
leeway,
purchase,
tolerance,
room for maneuver.
spare room,
elbow room,
house room;
stowage,
roomage†,
margin;
opening,
sphere,
arena.
open space,
free space;
void
etc.
(absence)
187;
waste;
wildness,
wilderness;
moor,
moorland;
campagna†.
abyss
etc.
(interval)
198;
unlimited space;
infinity
etc.
105;
world;
ubiquity
etc.
(presence)
186;
length and breadth of the land.
proportions,
acreage;
acres,
acres and perches,
roods and perches,
hectares,
square miles;
square inches,
square yards,
square centimeters,
square meters,
yards
(clothing)
&c.;
ares,
arpents†.
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