flatland
nounUK /ˈflatlənd/
Etymology From flat + land.
1
Synonym of plain (“land of relatively constant altitude”).
- After crossing the flatlands Lincoln, with its magnificent hilltop cathedral, comes into view before we pull into the station, with its lovely Tudor revival-style buildings.2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48:
2
Ireland, Colloquial An urban region with many flats or apartments to rent.
- Back then, at eighteen, in her humble bed-sit, in Dublin's 'flatland', she was lonely.2005, Esme Conway, Into Angels, page 18:
- Derived terms
- flatlander