"flatland" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48:",
          "text": "After crossing the flatlands Lincoln, with its magnificent hilltop cathedral, comes into view before we pull into the station, with its lovely Tudor revival-style buildings.",
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        "Synonym of plain (“land of relatively constant altitude”)"
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          "text": "Back then, at eighteen, in her humble bed-sit, in Dublin's 'flatland', she was lonely.",
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        "An urban region with many flats or apartments to rent."
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        "(Ireland, colloquial) An urban region with many flats or apartments to rent."
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          "ref": "2024 October 30, Paul Bigland, “The heat is on... and will the railway fray?”, in RAIL, number 1021, page 48:",
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