Thesaurus results for CAMPO

campo

noun

ˈkam-(ˌ)pō

Definition of campo

as in prairie

a broad area of level or rolling treeless country vaqueros driving their herd of cattle across the campo

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Recent Examples of campo Indeed, Eugenio, whose large-scale figurative paintings have been exhibited across Europe, Latin America, and the US, exerts a fatherly influence across the campo. — Alessandra Schade, Vogue, 7 June 2025 Since 2019, Javier Farfan has been the quarterback — or, el mariscal de campo — overseeing a massive push to highlight the league-wide spectrum of Latinidad. — Alan Chazaro, NPR, 21 Dec. 2024 The campo, which forms part of the 150,000-hectare Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, is best accessed via cable car. — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2023 The German synagogue was constructed by a group of Ashkenazi Jews with five large windows that overlook the ghetto’s central square, or campo. — New York Times, 4 May 2022 Vasquez is the youngest artist in the show, and his paintings show the joy of lively gatherings in the campo (meaning rural areas or the countryside in Spanish-speaking countries and within the Latinx diaspora). — CNN, 31 Aug. 2021 Like many Puerto Ricans born in the campo (boondocks) or born before the 1950s, birth dates and timelines are a blurred suggestion. — Illyanna Maisonet, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2018

Recent Examples of Synonyms for campo

Noun

In place of herds of bison thundering across the prairie, there were piles of bones a story high and as much as a hundred feet long.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
On her 43 acres of woods and reclaimed native prairie in rural Tazewell County, Katie VandenBerg walked the edge of her property, inspecting a line of oaks bordered by miles of corn and soybean fields.

— Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of prairie

Noun

The desire to see Russia as singularly the product of its steppe heritage ends up distorting and simplifying this history.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
The unification of the Eurasian steppes under Genghis Khan and his successors—Ögödei, Möngke, and Kublai Khan—brought many of these trade routes under a single political authority for the first time.

— Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of steppe

Noun

That’s what pulled me to the plains of north-central Spain last week.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Aug. 2026
Harry and Meghan’s children even chose the color of their elephants’ collars, which will help the organization track them across the plains of northern Botswana.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of plain

Noun

Hundreds, thousands of solar panels are distributed like macropixels among ravines, pampas, slopes, and wherever there’s room for them.

— Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
Participants travel by horseback to South American landscapes few people ever reach, from vast valleys and sweeping pampas to ancient lenga forests and high plateaus populated with condors.

— Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 6 June 2026

Definition of pampa

Noun

Rather than building on barren deserts, developers often claimed rich grasslands and farms, replacing vital bird habitats with concrete and glass.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
Towering mountains, gnarly canyons, expansive grasslands and deep forests.

— Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of grassland

Noun

With a glorious mane of glowing purple gas and dust, the Lion Nebula sparkles on the cosmic savanna in this new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026
And South Sudan's first World Heritage site, the Boma–Badingilo Migratory Landscape, protects a vast sweep of savanna, wetlands, and floodplains crossed by one of the world's largest terrestrial mammal migrations.

— Bailey Berg, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026