prairie fire

1. 1.

   an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area

   Synonymsgrassfire

   Broaderfire

Questions about prairie fire

What does prairie fire mean?

prairie fire means "an uncontrolled fire in a grassy area".

What is another word for prairie fire?

Close synonyms include grassfire. 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 prairie fire a common word?

prairie fire 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.