champaign

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cham=paign

CIDE DICTIONARY

champaign, n. [OF. champaigne; same word as campagne.].

 A flat, open country.  [1913 Webster]
"Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined."  [1913 Webster]
"Through Apline vale or champaign wide."  [1913 Webster]

champaign, a. 

 Flat; open; level.  [1913 Webster]
"A wide, champaign country, filled with herds."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

champaign, n. literary 1 open country.
2 an expanse of open country.

Etymology

ME f. OF champagne f. LL campania: cf. CAMPAIGN

THESAURUS

champaign

alkali flat, alluvial plain, bailiwick, basin, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign country, coastal plain, delta, demesne, desert, domain, dominion, down, downs, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, grass veld, grassland, heath, lande, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, province, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, sphere, steppe, table, tableland, terrain, territory, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, walk, weald, wide-open spaces, wold

ROGET THESAURUS

champaign

Plain

N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.