farmland

See also: farm land

English

Farm land

Alternative forms

• farm land

Etymology

From farm +‎ land.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːmlænd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːɹmlænd/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

farmland (usually uncountable, plural farmlands)

1. Land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.
   • 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:

     From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.

   • 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).

Hypernyms

• land

Hyponyms

• farmfields, farmyards

Related terms

• farmscape, landscape

Translations

land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production

• Arabic: أَرْض زِرَاعِيَّة f (ʔarḍ zirāʕiyya)
• Bengali: খামার (bn) (khamar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 農田 / 农田 (zh) (nóngtián), 田地 (zh) (tiándì)

• Czech: zemědělská půda f
• Dutch: akkerland (nl) n
• Finnish: viljelysmaa (fi)
• French: terres agricoles f pl
• Galician: agro m
• German: Ackerland (de) n
• Irish: talamh feirme m
• Japanese: 農地 (ja) (のうち, nōchi), 畑地 (ja) (はたち, hatachi), 田地 (ja) (でんち, denchi, でんじ, denji)
• Macedonian: о́рница f (órnica), ора́ница f (oránica)
• Maori: whenua pāmu
• Quechua: chakra
• Russian: сельскохозя́йственное уго́дье n (selʹskoxozjájstvennoje ugódʹje), фе́рмерское уго́дье n (férmerskoje ugódʹje), па́хотная земля́ f (páxotnaja zemljá)
• Spanish: chacra (es) f, chácara (es) f, chagra f, pamba (es) f, conuco (es) m
• Swedish: jordbruksmark (sv) c, åkermark (sv) c
• Welsh: tir amaeth m

See also

• acreage

References

• “farmland”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.