steppe

«steppe» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A huge, flat area of grassland with few trees, especially… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a steppe, steppes)

meaning for a pupil

A huge, flat area of grassland with few trees, especially in eastern Europe and Asia. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography lessons the steppe is one of the grassland biomes, like the prairie in North America and the pampas in South America; it has hot summers, cold winters and little rain. In history, nomads rode horses across the steppes. Phrases: the Russian steppe, the Mongolian steppes.

examples

• And Saul cast the spear; for he said: 'I will smite David even to the wall.' And David stepped aside out of his presence twice. (Prophets 1SA.18.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• Herds of horses roamed the steppe. tree →
• The steppes of Central Asia stretch for thousands of miles. tree →
• Few trees grow on the steppe because it is dry. tree →
• Nomads lived in tents on the steppe. tree →
• The steppe is like the prairie of North America. tree →
• Ukraine has wide steppes in the south. tree →

note

Spelled with two p's and an e at the end; sounds like step. Do not confuse with step. Similar grasslands: prairie (North America), pampas (South America), savanna (Africa, with more trees and hotter).

In the corpora

• It is a steppe marmot, bobak, warning its family that an eagle is overhead.
• Once the steppe covered much of southern Ukraine.
• The steppe marmot, bobak, stands on its back legs and whistles to warn its family of eagles and foxes.
• Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.
• Sousliks are a main food for steppe eagles, imperial eagles and steppe polecats, so when souslik colonies disappear these hunters disappear too.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «steppe» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.