terrain

noun

An area of land; ground.

noun

A particular geographic area; a region.

noun

The surface features of an area of land; topography.

noun

A part of the earth’s surface limited in extent; a region, district, or tract of land, either looked at in a general way or considered with reference to its fitness or use for some special purpose, as for a building-place or a battle-field: a term little used in English except in translating from the French, and then with the same meaning which it has in the original.

noun

A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.

noun

An area of land or the particular features of it.

noun

a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential