📚 Steppe, noun. 🔉 /stɛp/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (often steppes): A large area of flat unforested grassland in south-eastern Europe or Siberia. ❗️ Examples: 1. By the mid-sixteenth century Crimea, the southern Russian steppes, the Kazakh steppes, and western Siberia had come under Islamic law. 2. With these they are able to dramatise plains, prairies, steppes and meadows. 3. From the borders of Europe to the frozen steppes of Siberia and the Pacific coastline of Vladivostok, Russia is still geographically a powerful presence despite having shed its Soviet-era neighbours. 4. The Pope, who aides say is losing sleep over the possibility of war, celebrated a Mass that began with a stiff wind blowing in from Siberia over the flat steppes and ended in sunshine. 5. The arctic meadows, tundras, and steppes contained the herbaceous plants, leaves, and sprigs of shrubs and low shrubs needed for the mammoth to feed on and survive in glacial Siberia. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic