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steppesteppe /step/ noun [countable, uncountable] (also the steppes [plural]) steppeOrigin: 1600-1700 Russian step - Farmland, especially among growing crops, open grassland, steppes, semi-deserts.
- Galloping horses, endless deserts and grassland steppes.
- In 376, however, the Visigoths found themselves under extreme pressure from the Huns, an Asiatic people from the steppes.
- In the steppes and the Caucasus they knew the dead could rise again, and how they could be stopped.
- Saltcoats was made up of lumpy steppe.
- Their linguistic legacy is still to be found in the major river valleys of the steppe and forest-steppe.
- They settled the steppes so successfully that their numbers grew to forty-five thousand in less than a century.
- Wheat descends from three grasses that hybridized on the Anatolian steppes.
► stepped aside He stepped aside to let Katherine go in first. a large area of land without trees, especially in Russia, Asia, and eastern Europe |