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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

ステップ

Pronunciation / Transliteration: suteppu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Steppe/stɛp/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"中央アジアには広大なステップ気候が広がっている。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A large, flat, treeless area of grassland, particularly found in Eurasia.

    "Nomadic tribes historically grazed their horses across the vast expanses of the Eurasian steppe."
  2. 2

    Any semi-arid grassy plain with sparse vegetation.

    "The dry steppe climate supports only drought-resistant shrubs and grasses."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Russian word 'stepb' (meaning barren, flat tract of land), which entered Western European languages in the 19th century to describe the vast, treeless grasslands of Eastern Europe and Asia. Its ultimate Indo-European root relates to stretching or extending flatly across a landscape.

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