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morland

morland is the obsolete 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: Morland

Morland (countable and uncountable, plural Morlands)

  1. A surname.
  2. A minor city in Graham County, Kansas, United States, named after a railroad employee.
  3. A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY5922).

Forms of morland

Noun
pluralmorlands
Proper noun
pluralMorlands

Questions about morland

What does morland mean?
Morland means a surname.
What is morland the obsolete form of?
Morland is the obsolete form of moorland.
What part of speech is morland?
Morland is a proper noun.

Words near morland in the dictionary

  1. Morks
  2. Morlach
  3. Morlachs
  4. Morlaix
  5. Morlan
  6. morland
  7. morlands
  8. Morlans
  9. Morlet wavelet
  10. Morlet wavelets
  11. Morley

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morland (page history and authors); Morland (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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