terrain

Borrowed from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).

• Rhymes: -eɪn

terrain (countable and uncountable, plural terrains)

1. (geology) a single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks
2. an area of land or the particular features of it

   The race will be run over a variety of terrain, including grass and sand.

• ground

• terrain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• retrain, trainer

From Old French terrain, terrein, from Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terrēnum.

• IPA^(key): /tɛ.ʁɛ̃/

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terrain m (plural terrains)

1. ground, landscape
2. field (as in soccer field)

   Un nouveau terrain de football a été aménagé l'an dernier. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. lot, plot, parcel

• “terrain” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• rentrai, ternira, trainer, traîner

• terren (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• taragn (Sutsilvan)
• teragn (Surmiran)

From Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terrenum.

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. (Puter, Vallader) land, soil
2. (Puter) country, land

   Synonym: pajais (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader)