Other forms: moorlands
Moorland is open high ground covered in heather and grass. Across the moorland, moorland birds, upland moorland.
Britain holds a large share of the world's heather moorland, and almost all of it is man-made, kept open by grazing and burning where woodland would otherwise return. The peat beneath it stores more carbon than the country's forests.
1nounmoorlandOpen high ground covered in heather and grass.
“We walked for hours across the windy moorland, with nothing but heather around us.”
moorland is a land.
Middle English morelond is moor plus land.
Middle English
morelond
English, today
moorland
From Middle English morelond, equivalent to moor + land. Compare Old Norse mýrlendi (“moorland”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA