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One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.
David F. Houston

Meaning of "prairie schooner" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PRAIRIE SCHOONER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PRAIRIE SCHOONER

noun
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adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Prairie schooner is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PRAIRIE SCHOONER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prairie schooner

Prairie schooner may refer to: ▪ Covered wagon used by pioneers in the American old west ▪ Prairie Schooner a magazine published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ▪ Prairie Schooner Book Prize...

Definition of prairie schooner in the English dictionary

The definition of prairie schooner in the dictionary is a horse-drawn covered wagon similar to but smaller than a Conestoga wagon, used in the 19th century to cross the prairies of North America.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PRAIRIE SCHOONER

prairie
prairie chicken
prairie cocktail
prairie crocus
prairie dog
prairie fowl
prairie grouse
prairie hen
prairie marmot
prairie oyster
Prairie Provinces
prairie soil
Prairie State
prairie turnip
prairie wolf
prairie-dogging
praise
praiseach
praiseful
praiseless

WORDS THAT END LIKE PRAIRIE SCHOONER

air-conditioner
boner
booner
commissioner
conditioner
crooner
harpooner
kroner
lampooner
marooner
mooner
nooner
practitioner
prisoner
ratooner
schooner
sooner
stoner
swooner
toner

Synonyms and antonyms of prairie schooner in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «prairie schooner» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PRAIRIE SCHOONER

Find out the translation of prairie schooner to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prairie schooner from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prairie schooner» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

草原大篷车
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pradera goleta
570 millions of speakers

English

prairie schooner
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रेयरी स्कूनर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البراري مركب شراعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прерии шхуна
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pradaria escuna
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রাইভী স্কুনার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Prairie Schooner
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Padang rumput prairie
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Plantwagen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

草原スクーナー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대초원 스쿠너
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prairie schooner
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

đồng cỏ schooner
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பிரியரி ஸ்குனர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रेयसी स्पूनर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Prairie Schooner
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prairie schooner
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

łąka szkuner
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прерії шхуна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prerie pahar înalt pentru bere
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λιβάδι σκούνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prairie skoener
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

prärie skonare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prærien skonnert
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prairie schooner

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PRAIRIE SCHOONER»

The term «prairie schooner» is normally little used and occupies the 121.176 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PRAIRIE SCHOONER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prairie schooner

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QUOTES WITH «PRAIRIE SCHOONER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word prairie schooner.
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David F. Houston
One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRAIRIE SCHOONER»

Discover the use of prairie schooner in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prairie schooner and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Prairie Schooner Book Prize: Tenth Anniversary Reader
After ten years of selecting great books from writers, new and established, Prairie Schooner celebrates the first decade of its Book Prize series by offering this collection of excerpts from each year’s winners in fiction and poetry.
James Engelhardt, Marianne Kunkel, Kwame Dawes, 2013
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Best of Prairie Schooner: Fiction and Poetry
Now celebrating seventy-five years of continuous publication, Prairie Schooner has been called one of the best magazines in America by Nan Talese, "the roots" in Esquire's garden of contemporary literature, and one of the best places for ...
Hilda Raz, 2001
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The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Jewish ...
The collection embraces tradition and innovation and is as diverse as it is consistently stimulating, sure to become required reading for enthusiasts of contemporary American literature.
Hilda Raz, 1998
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A Mind Like This
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Blackwell Ramsey’s A Mind Like This is a work of humor and wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it reflects on the oddness of everyday life, the natural world, ...
Susan Blackwell Ramsey, 2012
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Prairie Schooner Detours
Firsthand description of two so-called short cuts traveled by the prairie schooners of the pioneers on their way to the gold mines of California.
Irene Dakin Paden, 1949
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Little Sinners, and Other Stories
These stories capture the domestic world in all its blighted promise—a world where women’s roles in housekeeping, marriage, childbirth, and sex have been all too well defined, and where the characters fashion, recklessly and ...
Karen Brown, 2012
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Ceiling of Sticks
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Shane Book's collection,Ceiling of Sticks, is a powerful and unflinching sort of documentary poetics.
Shane Book, 2010
8
Notes for My Body Double
And yet these are the pop-culture coordinates that chart the emotional life brilliantly mapped out in Paul Guest?s second book of poems.
Paul Guest, 2007
9
Boy Life on the Prairie
A NIGHT RIDE IN A PRAIRIE SCHOONER One afternoon in the autumn of 1868 Duncan Stewart, leading his little fleet of " prairie schooners," entered upon " The Big Prairie " of northern Iowa, and pushed resolutely on into the west.
Hamlin Garland, 1961
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Boys' Life
Although some of them made the long and dangerous trip by horseback, the majority traveled by means of the rugged prairie schooner. The emigrants — Irish , English, Germans, Scotsmen, as well as native Americans — loaded their covered ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRAIRIE SCHOONER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prairie schooner is used in the context of the following news items.
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Neil Roszell Sask. Oilman of the Year
He became president and COO of Prairie Schooner Petroleum, which was later sold to True Energy. He then returned to his Saskatchewan ... «Pipeline News, Jul 15»
2
World Above Free Poetry Night Features Ona Gritz and Daniel …
His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, Hampden Sydney Poetry Review, Passenger, The Atlanta Review, The Louisville Review ... «Press of Atlantic City, Jul 15»
3
WEEKEND: Centrum offers final free readings in Port Townsend …
Her writing has been published in Glamour, Kenyon Review, Post Road, Portland Review, Prairie Schooner, Hunger Mountain, Salon, Dissent, ... «Peninsula Daily, Jul 15»
4
Bonk show has three performers July 18
Her work has appeared in Apogee, The Normal School, Prairie Schooner, Transition Magazine and Waxwing. Seasaw is the alliance of two ... «Journal Times, Jul 15»
5
Rinker Buck's Amazing Journey Chronicled in 'The Oregon Trail'
... and it was literally the farm wagon on the plains that was adapted for use, that became the prairie schooner, to cross the plains to the frontier. «KMUW, Jul 15»
6
Sign up for Painting with Words workshop
Foushee has been published in many literary journals, including Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner and The Seattle Review. She has taught at ... «Coast Weekend, Jul 15»
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Appeals on Tahquitz Plaza demolition head to PS City Council
... for Aberdeen, a mixed-use residential and retail development proposed for the area of Tahquitz Plaza and the adjoining Prairie Schooner lot, ... «KESQ, Jul 15»
8
Death of the quick pint?
Many of these – Heaton Hops in Stockport, the Prairie Schooner in Urmston, BarBeerian in Whitefield – double-up as bottle shops, too, ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
9
The beginning of Lodi Fair tradition
... Indians on horseback, a prairie schooner, pioneer dump cart and the Lodi Cornet band. This year was also marked with a near tragedy. Miss. «hngnews.com, Jul 15»
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Library to have another 'Evening of Poetry'
Her work has appeared in Tampa Review, Prairie Schooner, FIELD, The Iowa Review, Poetry and other journals and anthologies. Skillman is ... «Queen Anne News, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
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