noun
a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s
• Hypernyms: ↑geographical area, ↑geographic area, ↑geographical region, ↑geographic region
• Part Holonyms: ↑Great Plains, ↑Great Plains of North America
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noun : a region that suffers from prolonged droughts and dust storms
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1. the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.
2. (l.c.) any similar dry region elsewhere.
[1935-40, Amer.]
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dust bowl noun
A drought area subject to dust storms (Dust Bowl the region of the USA along the western edge of the Great Plains)
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Main Entry: ↑dust
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a region where there are a lot of dust storms because the soil has become dry because of a lack of rain
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dust bowl or Dust Bowl,
an area, especially in the western plains of the United States and Canada, where dust storms are frequent and violent: »
Choking dust storms were stirred up over the dust bowl (Science News Letter).
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n. an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, esp. as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice
■ the Dust Bowl an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move
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noun, pl ⋯ bowls [count]
: an area of land that was once used for farming but that has become a desert because of a lack of rain
They left the dust bowl and moved west.
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an area of land that has been turned into desert by lack of rain or too much farming
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the Oklahoma Dust Bowl of the 1930s
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Many families struggled to survive in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.