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▪ I. ˈdownland1
[f. down n.1; cf. OE. dúnland.]
Land forming downs; hilly pasture-land.
[c1000ælfric Deut. i. 7 Feld landum & dun landum.] 1842Penny Cycl. XXIII. 343/2 There are also about 50,000 acres of down-land. 1884W. J. Courthope Addison ii. 27 Salisbury Plain, with..its open tracts of undulating downland.
▪ II. ˈdownland2
[Cf. upland.]
Land lying low, or sloping downwards; in quot. attrib.
1839Stonehouse Axholme 399 Descending the downland lawns. |