FARMLAND
Dictionary entry overview: What does farmland mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
• FARMLAND (noun)
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)
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)
