Meanings
plural farmlands · alternative farm land
- uncountableusuallyLand that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.
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.
1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 2432 more examples
Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).
2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016The CCC would restore the soil health of farmlands in the Heartland and power the Colorado River by constructing the Hoover Dam. Their work transformed the very landscape of America.
2023 September 24, Michael D. Smith, “Opinion: Biden’s American Climate Corps could be the lasting legacy of this generation”, in CNN, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023Synonyms: cropland
Synonyms & antonyms
nounLand that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.
More synonyms by meaning
nounarable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishfarm
- Proto-Indo-European*lendʰ-
- Proto-Germanic*landą
- Proto-West Germanic*land
- Old Englishland
- Middle Englishlond
- Englishland
- Englishfarmland
Translations
Arabic أَرْض زِرَاعِيَّة
- أَرْض زِرَاعِيَّة (ʔarḍ zirāʕiyya)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Bengali খামার
- খামার (khamar)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Chinese Mandarin 農田 /农田, 田地
- 農田 /农田 (nóngtián)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
- 田地 (tiándì)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Czech zemědělská půda
- zemědělská půdaland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Dutch akkerland
- akkerlandland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Finnish viljelysmaa
- viljelysmaaland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
French terres agricoles
- terres agricolesland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
German Ackerland
- Ackerlandland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Greek αγρός
- αγρός (agrós)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Irish talamh feirme
- talamh feirmeland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Japanese 農地, 畑地
- 農地 (nōchi)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
- 畑地 (hatachi)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
- 田地land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Korean 농경지
- 농경지 (nonggyeongji)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Māori whenua pāmu
- whenua pāmuland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Russian сельскохозя́йственное уго́дье, фе́рмерское уго́дье
- сельскохозя́йственное уго́дье (selʹskoxozjájstvennoje ugódʹje)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
- фе́рмерское уго́дье (férmerskoje ugódʹje)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
- па́хотная земля́ (páxotnaja zemljá)land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Spanish chacra, chácara
- chacraland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
- chácaraland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
- chagraland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
- pambaland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
- conucoland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Swedish jordbruksmark, åkermark
- jordbruksmarkland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
- åkermarkland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Welsh tir amaeth
- tir amaethland which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
Cite this entry
farmland. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farmland
“farmland.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farmland. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “farmland,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/farmland.
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