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farmland

UK/ˈfɑːmlænd//ˈfɑːɹmlænd/

farmland noun: land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.

farmland: land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production
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Noun

farmland (usually uncountable, plural farmlands)

  1. (usually) Land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.
    • From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243
    • Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016
    Synonyms:
    cropland

farmland meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

farmland in Tamil

விளைநிலம், விவசாய நிலம்

farmland in Urdu

مزروعہ زمین

farmland in Bengali

land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
খামার khamar

farmland in Kannada

ಗದ್ದೆತಾಕು
More languagesFewer languages
farmland in Arabic
أَرْض زِرَاعِيَّة ʔarḍ zirāʕiyya

Examples of farmland in a sentence

  • This used to be farmland before developers bought it and subdivided it.
  • The incident had a serious and significant impact on farmland in the Ciaotou and Zihguan districts.
  • Soil erosion is only one of many serious threats to farmland.

All 31 example sentences with farmland

Synonyms of farmland

Forms of farmland

pluralfarmlands
alternative formfarm land

Plural of farmland: farmlands

Origin of farmland

From farm + land.

Questions about farmland

What does farmland mean?
Farmland means land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.
What is farmland in Tamil?
Farmland in Tamil is விளைநிலம், விவசாய நிலம். See Farmland meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is farmland?
Farmland is a noun.
How do you pronounce farmland?
Farmland is pronounced /ˈfɑːmlænd/ (UK).
What is the plural of farmland?
The plural of farmland is farmlands.

Words near farmland in the dictionary

  1. Farmington Falls
  2. Farmington Hills
  3. Farmingville
  4. farmish
  5. farmla
  6. farmland
  7. farmlands
  8. farmless
  9. farmlessness
  10. farmlet
  11. farmlets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: farmland (page history and authors); farmland (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); farmland (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); farmland (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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