farmland

1 a rural area where farming is practiced [syn: farming area]

2 arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops [syn: cultivated land, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth]

English

Etymology

From farm+land, hence land on which to farm.

Pronunciation

• /ˈfɑ:mlænd/
• American: /ˈfɑ:rmlænd/

Noun

1. Land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production.

Translations

References

Farmland may refer to:

• Arable land, land used for agriculture
• Farmland, Indiana, a town in the United States
• Farmland Industries, founded in 1929 as the Union Oil Company, later renamed Consumers Cooperative Association (CCA) and Farmland Industries, Inc.

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