"mesa" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmeɪ.sə/ [UK, US], /ˈmɛ.sə/ [UK, US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mesa.wav Forms: mesas [plural]
enPR: māʹsə [UK, US] Rhymes: -eɪsə Etymology: First attested 1759, from Spanish mesa (“table”), from Latin mēnsa. Doublet of mensa. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|mesa||table}} Spanish mesa (“table”), {{der|en|la|mēnsa}} Latin mēnsa, {{doublet|en|mensa}} Doublet of mensa Head templates: {{en-noun}} mesa (plural mesas)
  1. Flat area of land or plateau higher than other land, with one or more clifflike edges. Categories (place): Landforms Derived forms: Antelope Mesa, Big Mountain Mesa, Black Mesa, First Mesa, Mesa County, Second Mesa, Third Mesa Related terms: tablemount (alt: homologous landform under the sea) Translations (flat area of land): плато (plato) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 臺地 (Chinese Mandarin), 台地 (táidì) (Chinese Mandarin), altebenaĵo (Esperanto), ylätasanko (Finnish), pöytävuori (Finnish), Tafelberg [masculine] (German), הַר שֻׁלְחָן (har shulrán) [masculine] (Hebrew), fennsík (Hungarian), altopiano [masculine] (Italian), dah azką́ (Navajo), platå [neuter] (Norwegian), столова́я гора́ (stolovája gorá) [feminine] (Russian), mesa (Spanish), taffelberg [neuter] (Swedish), talampas (Tagalog), masa dağı (Turkish), núi mặt bàn (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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