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farmland

[ fahrm-land ]

noun

  1. land under cultivation or capable of being cultivated:

    to protect valuable farmland from erosion.



farmland

/ ˈfɑːmˌlænd /

noun

  1. land used or suitable for farming


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Word History and Origins

Origin of farmland1

First recorded in 1630–40; farm + land

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Example Sentences

The petroleum industry has depicted fracking as a few antiseptic drills dug on peaceful farmland.

No lasting jobs, no cheaper gas, and a chance to kill off one-fourth of U.S. farmland and maybe the planet.

In 1934 crops had failed on more than six million acres of Texas farmland.

These counties have inner-ring and outer-ring suburbs, still further out exurbs, and even a few patches of farmland.

It thus falls to IS to provide drinking water and irrigation to massive areas of farmland.

I have traveled through miles of this farmland in France, and its beauty was a splendid poem of what God had helped man to do.

And to leave her in farmland would be to let her slip back again out of accord with him.

His mind dwelt longingly upon Hascombe Hall and the acres of parkland, moorland, and farmland that were its inheritance.

These we reached and crossed safely, finding ourselves once again in farmland and a country of hedges and dykes.

The marvel of the place to me was the thousands and thousands of acres of splendid farmland on which no one lived.

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