mesa
/ˈmeɪ.sə/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
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A town in Mozambique.
Example Sentences
- "A few more miles of hot sand and gravel and red stone brought us around a low mesa to the Little Colorado River."
- "Low mesas, dry, treeless, stretch back from the brink of the canyon, often showing smooth surfaces of naked, solid rock."
- "Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars]."
- "The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mesa, mēnsa
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmeɪ.sə/
- British English: /ˈmeɪ.sə/
Usage
- American usage