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fireland

fireland noun: land that is characterized by, or has been degraded by, fires.

Noun

fireland (countable and uncountable, plural firelands)

  1. Land that is characterized by, or has been degraded by, fires.
    • The use of annual burning to manage pasture for cattle grazing in these areas further perpetuates a fireland degraded environment (Styger et al. 2007).2007 August 28, Ndegwa Ndiang'ui, Climate and Land Degradation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 240

Proper noun capitalized: Fireland

Fireland

  1. (rare) Synonym of Tierra del Fuego.

Synonyms of fireland

Forms of fireland

pluralfirelands

Origin of fireland

From fire + land.

From fire + -land, calque of Spanish Tierra del Fuego (literally “Land of Fire”).

Questions about fireland

What does fireland mean?
Fireland means land that is characterized by, or has been degraded by, fires.
What part of speech is fireland?
Fireland can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of fireland?
The plural of fireland is firelands.

Words near fireland in the dictionary

  1. firehouses
  2. fireiron
  3. fireirons
  4. firekeeper
  5. firekeepers
  6. fireland
  7. firelands
  8. fireless
  9. firelessly
  10. firelessness
  11. firelet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fireland (page history and authors); Fireland (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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