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firelands

firelands is the plural of fireland.

Meaning of fireland

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Firelands

Firelands

  1. An area of the Connecticut Western Reserve, located in what is now the US state of Ohio, given in 1792 to residents of Connecticut towns which the British had burned during the American Revolution.

Questions about firelands

What does firelands mean?
Firelands means an area of the Connecticut Western Reserve, located in what is now the US state of Ohio, given in 1792 to residents of Connecticut towns which the British had burned during the American Revolution.
What is firelands the plural of?
Firelands is the plural of fireland.
What part of speech is firelands?
Firelands is a proper noun.

Words near firelands in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: firelands (page history and authors); Firelands (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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