champian

• champion, champyon

Variant form of champaign.

champian (plural champians)

1. A plain; a flat expanse of land; a champaign.
2. A species of landscape that is flat and open.
3. The level open countryside, as distinct from the mountains, forests or towns.
4. (agriculture) common land; land that is not enclosed
5. Someone who farms land that is not enclosed.
6. A battlefield, especially when flat and open.
7. A field of inquiry or study.

champian (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Flat and open, like a champaign.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.4:

     Him selfe out of the forest he did wynd, / And by good fortune the plaine champion wonne […].

   • 1652, George Sandys, Sandys Travailes: containing a history of the Originall an ..., page 21:

     The countrey above, is champian and not barren,- but rarely inhabited.

   • 1703, Daniel Whitby, A paraphrase and commentary on the New Testament:

     The lower, which contained the Tribes of Zcbulon and Iffachar, because it was Champian, was called the Great Field

   • 1715, Guy Miege, Present State of His Majesty's Dominions in Germany, page 558:

     The Couutry in general is Champian, and low, but sometimes rises into pleasant Hills

• “champian” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

• Panchami, chinampa