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moorland

moorland noun: open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.

moorland: open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken
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Noun

moorland (countable and uncountable, plural moorlands)

  1. Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.
    • The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed.1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 593
    • Troutbeck station, 10 miles from Keswick, in the heart of wild moorland, is the most isolated on the line.1961 October, 'Voyageur', “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601
    Synonyms:
    moor

Proper noun capitalized: Moorland

Moorland

  1. A locality in the MidCoast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.

moorland meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Persian

moorland in Tamil

கரம்பைநிலம்

moorland in Urdu

بنجری علاقہ

moorland in Tagalog

land covered with heather or bracken
labunan

moorland in Persian

land covered with heather or bracken
خلنگزار xalangzâr

Synonyms of moorland

Forms of moorland

pluralmoorlands

Plural of moorland: moorlands

Origin of moorland

From Middle English morelond, equivalent to moor + land. Compare Old Norse mýrlendi (“moorland”).

Words formed from moorland

Questions about moorland

What does moorland mean?
Moorland means open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.
What is moorland in Tamil?
Moorland in Tamil is கரம்பைநிலம். See Moorland meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is moorland?
Moorland can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of moorland?
The plural of moorland is moorlands.

Words near moorland in the dictionary

  1. Moorish Scientist
  2. Moorish Scientists
  3. moorishly
  4. Moorishness
  5. moorit
  6. moorland
  7. moorlander
  8. moorlanders
  9. moorlands
  10. Moorleah
  11. moorlog

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