mesa

CEFRB2

/ˈmeɪ.sə/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A flat-topped hill with steep sides.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A place in the United States:, A city in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Examples

  • The flat top of the mesa stood out clearly.

  • The mesa rose high above the desert.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

Also pronounced

  • /ˈmɛ.sə/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

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

More examples

In context

  • We hiked to the top of the mesa.

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

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

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

Over millions of years, wind and water carved a flat-topped landform called a blank in the arid region.

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Origin

noun

First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa.