How to pronounce steppe
American English pronunciation
STEP
- IPA
- /ˈstɛp/
- Syllables
- STEP (1 syllable)
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What steppe means
A huge, dry, grassy plain with few trees
In a sentence: Wild horses galloped across the steppe under a wide blue sky.
Where it comes from: It came into English through German or French from a Russian word for a flat, grassy plain. Its older roots are not known.
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