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farmland

UK/ˈfɑːmlænd/US/ˈfɑːɹmlænd/
nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,297 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: farmlands

Farmland is land used for growing crops or keeping animals. Prime farmland.

It is worth far less than building land, which is the pressure behind nearly every planning row. Farmland lost to building is never recovered, since the soil goes with it.

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Definitions of farmland

  1. 1nounfarmlandLand used for growing crops or keeping animals.B1+

    “Two hundred acres of farmland went under the new road.”

farmland is land.

Where it comes from

From farm + land.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

farmland in the wild

  • The majority of the region is covered by farmland.

    Eastern Ridges and Lowlands

  • Although the dam itself lies in the centre of the Markala commune, the farmland irrigated by the dam lies outside the commune to the north.

    Markala

  • Nearly all of the farmland in the London area is a basis for the growing culture.

    Agriculture in London

  • Prime farmland is a designation assigned by U.S.

    Prime farmland

  • Peak farmland is the maximum usable amount of land needed for crop cultivation (agricultural land) for a given region (country or an entire world).

    Peak farmland

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.