Synonyms for terrain
təˈreɪnter·rain

Princeton's WordNet

1. terrainnoun

   a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential

   "they decided to attack across the rocky terrain"

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1. List of paraphrases for "terrain":

   ground, topography, field, land, topographic, landform, field, soil, relief

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1. Komal Shah:

   Many people died of malaria and black fever when they were building because of the difficult terrain and there were no medical facilities resulting (in) many deaths, they had to take risks coming to this place.

2. Archuleta County Sheriff Rich Valdez:

   It was real mountainous terrain with heavy tree cover, Basically all we were doing was a recovery.

3. Lisa Cox:

   We've got extremely steep, rugged terrain, we have many different drainages that are all kind of intersecting together and that creates these funneling effects of different wind patterns and creates more erratic fire behavior.

4. Maeve Juarez:

   These hot supes know the terrain, what type of brush is burning, how it burned in an area in the past, they are a big part of our decision making, strategy and tactics on fighting fires.

5. Lara Gut:

   What Lindsey did was truly phenomenal. I know what it’s like to celebrate your first win after a long injury, but I’m also very proud to have beaten her on her favorite terrain.