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rosland

rosland noun: moorish or watery land.

Noun

rosland (countable and uncountable, plural roslands)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Moorish or watery land.
    • Oh, Melanie […] You used to love […] The billowing of the green marsh-grass, […] You used to love the tinging, cool / Plash of the heron in the pool / Of the wide roslands by Bel' Île, […]1899, Florence Wilkinson, “Melanie à Melançon”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 58, page 435

Forms of rosland

pluralroslands

Origin of rosland

From Welsh rhos (“a meadow, a moor”) + land.

Questions about rosland

What does rosland mean?
Rosland means moorish or watery land.
What part of speech is rosland?
Rosland is a noun.
What is the plural of rosland?
The plural of rosland is roslands.

Words near rosland in the dictionary

  1. Roskin
  2. Roskins
  3. Roskomnadzor
  4. Roskopf
  5. Roskopfs
  6. rosland
  7. roslands
  8. Roslin
  9. Roslindale
  10. Rosling
  11. Rosliston

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