plataea

1. 1.

   a former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC

   Broadertown

   Part ofBoeotia
2. 2.

   a defeat of the Persian army by the Greeks at Plataea in 479 BC

   Synonymsbattle of Plataea

   Broaderpitched battle

   Boeotia

Other forms of plataea

plural

plataeas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about plataea

What does plataea mean?

plataea means "a former town in Boeotia; site of a battle between the Greeks and Persians in 479 BC". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plataea?

plataea has 4 syllables: pla-ta-e-a. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for plataea?

Close synonyms include battle of Plataea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is plataea a common word?

plataea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.