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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An inhabitant or a settler of the plains, especially of the prairie regions of the United States.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dweller on the plains.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who lives in the plains.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A native, inhabitant or settler of a plains region, but especially of the United States prairies

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an inhabitant of a plains region (especially the Great Plains of North America)

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