Meaning of plain in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

adjective

• Flat, level.

• Simple.

• Obvious.

• Open.

• Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.

  Example: Throughout high school she worried that she had a rather plain face.

• Not a trump.

adverb

• Simply.

  Example: I plain forgot.

• Plainly; distinctly.

  Example: Tell me plain: do you love me or no?

noun

• A lamentation.

verb

• To complain.

• To lament, bewail.

  Example: to plain a loss

noun

• A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.

  Example: There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.

• A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.

  Example: A crop circle was made in a corn field.

• A place where competitive matches are carried out.

• Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.

noun

• An expanse of land with relatively low relief, usually exclusive of forests, deserts, and wastelands.

verb

• To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.

• To make plain or manifest; to explain.

noun

• A level or flat surface.

• A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).

• A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane)

• A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.

• (Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.

• An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.

noun

• A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

noun

• An airplane; an aeroplane.

• Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called aeroplanes.

• The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

noun

• A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.

• (Northern UK) A sycamore.