Steppes

British  

/ stɛps /

plural noun

1. the huge grasslands of Eurasia, chiefly in Ukraine and Russia

2. another name for Kyrgyz Steppe

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steppes Cultural  

1. Vast grassy plains associated with eastern Russia and Siberia.

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Example Sentences

Laboratory analysis revealed that big-game hunting has been an essential part of pastoral subsistence and culture in the Eastern Steppes for more than 3,500 years.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

“The Book of Dust” has other touchstones too: William Blake, the occult, ancient civilizations, East Asia and a eight-minute piece by Borodin called “In the Steppes of Central Asia.”

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2017

One such work was his seven-movement oratorio, Song of the Forest, a piece that celebrated the forestation of the Russian Steppes after the second world war.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2015

The Rockies reminded him of the Caucasus, Wyoming of the Steppes, and Yellowstone's panhandling bears "are from Siberia."

From Time Magazine Archive

Adelung has inferred that Europe was peopled exclusively from the Steppes of Northern Asia.

From Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race by Johnes, Arthur James