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FARMLAND

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• FARMLAND (noun)
The noun FARMLAND has 2 senses:

1. a rural area where farming is practiced
2. arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

Familiarity information: FARMLAND used as a noun is rare.

• FARMLAND (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A rural area where farming is practiced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

farming area; farmland

Hypernyms ("farmland" is a kind of...):

country; rural area (an area outside of cities and towns)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cultivated land; ploughland; plowland; tillage; tilled land; farmland; tilth

Hypernyms ("farmland" is a kind of...):

ground; land; soil (material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "farmland"):

fallow (cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons)

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