ta·ble·land

(tā′bəl-lănd′)

A flat, elevated region; a plateau or mesa.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

tableland

(ˈteɪbəlˌlænd)

(Physical Geography) flat elevated land; a plateau

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

pla•teau

(plæˈtoʊ; esp. Brit. ˈplæt oʊ)

n., pl. -teaus, -teaux (-ˈtoʊz, -toʊz)

v. -teaued, -teau•ing. n.

1. a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side.

2. a period or state of little or no growth or decline, esp. one in which increase or progress ceases: to reach a plateau in one's career.

v.i.

3. to reach a state or level of little or no growth or decline; stabilize.

[1785–95; < French; Old French platel flat object, diminutive of plat plate]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

tableland - a relatively flat highland

plateau

highland, upland - elevated (e.g., mountainous) land

mesa, table - flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water"

bench, terrace - a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)

Translations

οροπέδιο

altopiano

tableland

[ˈteɪbllænd] N → meseta f, altiplano m (LAm)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tableland

[ˈteɪblˌlænd] n → tavolato, altopiano

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

It grew plainer every second, until she discovered it to be a row of jagged rocks at the end of the desert, while high above these rocks she could see a tableland of green grass and beautiful trees.

View in context

The surrounding shores were beautiful with semitropical verdure, while in the distance the country rose from the ocean in hill and tableland, almost uniformly clothed by primeval forest.

View in context

The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of fertility.

View in context

Flintcomb-Ash being in the middle of the cretaceous tableland over which no railway had climbed as yet, it would be necessary to walk.

View in context

At the camp Virginia found that a neat clearing had been made upon a little tableland, a palisade built about it, and divided into three parts; the most northerly of which contained a small house for herself and her father, another for von Horn, and a common cooking and eating house over which Sing was to preside.

View in context

Still climbing, although he paused often from sheer physical weakness, they scaled forest-clad heights until they emerged on a naked mesa or tableland. Bassett recognized the stuff of its composition as black volcanic sand, and knew that a pocket magnet could have captured a full load of the sharply angular grains he trod upon.

View in context

A rounded meadow revealed itself, when they had reached it, for a vast tableland running far into the valley.

View in context

Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park.

View in context

At Redding they crossed the Sacramento on a cable ferry, and made a day's scorching traverse through rol}ing foot-hills and flat tablelands. The heat grew more insupportable, and the trees and shrubs were blasted and dead.

View in context

Tableland (4) LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION: Across - 1 Cryptogram; 6 Church; 10 Imp; 11 Uneasy; 12 Humbug; 14 Heigh-ho; 15 Unheard-of; 17 In living memory; 20 USA; 21 Dangerous; 23 Son; 24 Out of this world; 28 Dog-kennel; 29 Deposit; 30 Obsess; 32 Aslant; 34 Hen; 35 Sunday; 36 Exasperate.

WIN PS10 OF SHOPPING VOUCHERS; PRIZE CROSSWORD

This report is of an observation made at 0730h AEST on 29 September 2014, about 1 km S of Marraweeney (36[degrees] 44'S, 145[degrees] 45'E), on the Strathbogie Tableland in north-eastern Victoria.

Sociable common wombats