Meaning & use
mesa
An isolated flat-topped hill or plateau with steep sides, common in arid regions.
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The hikers climbed to the top of the mesa to watch the sunset over the desert.
Erosion carved the mesa's steep cliffs over millions of years.
A note on using this word
Mesa comes directly from the Spanish word for table and is used unchanged as an English geographic term.
Words with a similar meaning
plateautableland
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