mesa

/ˈmeɪ.sə/

name 6noun 2

Collocations

ADJ.

little, low

We hiked across the low mesa and could see for miles in every direction.

MESA + NOUN

america

The ancient pueblo ruins scattered across mesa america tell stories of civilizations that thrived centuries ago.

PREP.

around, in, on

The ancient pueblo ruins were discovered on the mesa overlooking the desert valley.

Definitions

noun

A flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges.

A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.

Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.

a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it

The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.

name

A city in Maricopa County, Arizona.

A census-designated place in Inyo County, California.

An unincorporated community in Colorado.

A city in Washington.

A town in Mozambique.

name

Acronym of Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — flat tableland with steep edges

table

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River.

Wiktionary

Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock.

Wiktionary

Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million

Wiktionary

A small, homogeneous population with a precious culture—a Hopi village on a mesa top in America, e.g.—may be unable to tolerate any outsider for long.

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Usage Notes

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