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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--mesa This week's theme: words borrowed from Spanish. mesa (MAY-suh) noun A flat-top land formation with steep sides. A mesa is an area bigger than a butte but smaller than a plateau. [From Spanish mesa (table), from Latin mensa (table).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Wetherill and Mason spent several hours on that December day exploring the site and collecting artifacts. They climbed to the top of the mesa and separated, searching for more cliff dwellings." Robin Chalmers; A Historic Rediscovery; Cobblestone (Peterborough, New Hampshire); Sep 1999. X-Bonus How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? -Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)

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