Plain. (n.d.). In YourDictionary. Retrieved from https://www.yourdictionary.com/Plain
An extensive, relatively level area of land. Plains are present on all continents except Antarctica and are most often located in the interior regions. Because they can occur at almost any altitude or latitude, plains can be humid and forested, semiarid and grass-covered, or arid.
A broad, level expanse, such as an area of the sea floor or a lunar mare.
These adjectives mean not ornate, ostentatious, or showy: a plain hairstyle; a modest cottage; a simple dark suit; an unostentatious office; an unpretentious country church.
From Anglo-Normanplainer, pleiner, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French pleindre, plaindre, from Latinplangere, present active infinitive of plangÅ.
