plain

UK /pleɪn/ US /pleɪn/
adj 6noun 5verb 4adv 2name 1

Definitions

adj

1

Flat, level.

The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain.

2

Simple, unaltered.

He was dressed simply in plain black clothes.

a plain tune

3

Simple, unaltered.

a plain pink polycotton skirt

4

Simple, unaltered.

They're just plain people like you or me.

plain yet pious Christians

5

Simple, unaltered.

Would you like a poppy bagel or a plain bagel?

adv

1

Simply.

It was just plain stupid.

I plain forgot.

2

Plainly; distinctly.

Tell me plain: do you love me or no?

noun

1

An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.

Him the Ammonite / Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain.

1961, J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 467. For Plato the life of the philosopher is a life of struggle towards the goal of knowledge, towards “searching the heavens and measuring the plains, in all places seeking the nature of everything as a whole”

2

A broad, flat expanse in general, as of water.

Fair ship, that from the Italian shore, ⁠Sailest the placid ocean-plains ⁠With my lost Arthur’s loved remains, Spread thy full wings, and waft him o’er.

3

Synonym of field in reference to a battlefield.

You have stormed no town and found the money there ; neither did you find it in the plains of Plassey after the defeat of the Nawab

Lead forth my soldiers to the plain.

4

Alternative spelling of plane: a flat geometric field.

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