arable
/ˈæɹəbl̩/
arable adjective: of land, able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
Adjective
arable (comparative more arable, superlative most arable)
- Of land, able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
- And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land […]1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962...
- Antonyms:
- inarable
- Of land, under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).
Noun
arable (usually uncountable, plural arables)
- Land that can be cropped (i.e., land that is arable); land that is being cropped (i.e., land that is in the cropping phase of a crop rotation, currently being cropped rather than used as pasture or fallow).
- Arrangements for the drainage of this piece of arable were commenced last summer1932, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter XXII, in Have His Carcase
Proper noun capitalized: Arable
Arable
- A locality in the Snowy Monaro council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
arable meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
arable in Tamil
- உழுது பயிரிடத்தக்க, விளைவிற்குரிய, சாகுபடி செய்யத்தக்க, உழத்தக்க, பயிரிடத்தக்க, பயிரிடு
arable in Urdu
- قابل زراعت
arable in Bengali
- arable, fit for agriculture
- আবাদ abad
arable in Malayalam
- suitable for cultivation
- കൃഷിയോഗ്യമായ kr̥ṣiyōgyamāya
More languagesFewer languages
- arable in Kannada
- ಉಳತಕ್ಕ, ಬೇಸಾಯ ಯೋಗ್ಯ, ವ್ಯವಸಾಯ ಯೋಗ್ಯ, ಸಾಗುವಳಿ ಮಾಡಬಲ್ಲ
- arable in Indonesian
- layak tanam
Examples of arable in a sentence
- Such areas not being scaturiginous, and arable, will ever be sparcely populated.
- In the past decade development has overrun much of China's arable land.
- The arable land of the whole district is now completely salinized.
Antonyms of arable
Forms of arable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more arable |
| superlative | most arable |
| Noun | |
| plural | arables |
Origin of arable
From Middle English arable, from Middle French arable, from Old French arable, from Latin arābilis, formed from arō (“plow”) + -bilis (“able to be”). Cognate with earable (“arable”).
Words formed from arable
Questions about arable
- What does arable mean?
- Arable means of land, able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
- What is arable in Tamil?
- Arable in Tamil is உழுது பயிரிடத்தக்க, விளைவிற்குரிய, சாகுபடி செய்யத்தக்க. See Arable meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is arable?
- Arable can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce arable?
- Arable is pronounced /ˈæɹəbl̩/.
Words near arable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: arable (page history and authors); Arable (page history and authors); arable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); arable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); আবাদ (Bengali) (page history and authors); arable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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