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# steppe

«steppe» in Mova's school 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steppe/#m1)

### 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

- Herds of horses roamed the steppe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steppe/#x1)
- The steppes of Central Asia stretch for thousands of miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steppe/#x2)
- Few trees grow on the steppe because it is dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steppe/#x3)
- Nomads lived in tents on the steppe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steppe/#x4)
- The steppe is like the prairie of North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steppe/#x5)
- Ukraine has wide steppes in the south. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steppe/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/1/)
- [Once the steppe covered much of southern Ukraine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/4/)
- [The steppe marmot, bobak, stands on its back legs and whistles to warn its family of eagles and foxes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/8/)
- [Marmots almost vanished when most steppe was ploughed and came back in reserves in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/11/)
- [Sousliks are a main food for steppe eagles, imperial eagles and steppe polecats, so when souslik colonies disappear these hunters disappear too.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/373-ukraine-s-steppe-marmots-sousliks-great-bustards-and-askania-nova/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «steppe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/steppe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.