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moreland

moreland is the archaic form of moorland.

Meaning of moorland

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
    Synonyms:
    moor

See all 2 meanings of moorland

Proper noun capitalized: Moreland

Moreland

  1. A surname.
  2. A township in Pope County, Arkansas.
  3. A town in Coweta County, Georgia.
  4. An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Ohio.
  5. A township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.

Forms of moreland

pluralmorelands

Words formed from moreland

Questions about moreland

What does moreland mean?
Moreland means a surname.
What is moreland the archaic form of?
Moreland is the archaic form of moorland.
What part of speech is moreland?
Moreland is a proper noun.

Words near moreland in the dictionary

  1. moreishly
  2. moreishness
  3. Morejon
  4. Morejons
  5. morel
  6. moreland
  7. morelands
  8. Morelet's alligator lizard
  9. Morelet's alligator lizards
  10. Morelet's crocodile
  11. Morelet's crocodiles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moreland (page history and authors); Moreland (page history and authors); moorland (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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