farmlandnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈfɑːm.lænd/us/ˈfɑːrm.lænd/land that is used for or is suitable for farming
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Farms & ranches
- collective farm
- croft
- dairy farm
- estate
- farm
- farmhouse
- farmstead
- homestead
- market garden
- nursery
- plantation
- ranch
- sheep station
- smallholding
- spread
- station
- tea garden
- truck farm
- vertical farm
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Examples from literature
- But there were other regions where for many a mile the timber had been hewn away, had given place to a ragged continuity of farmland.
- Farmland surrounded the villages and was farmed by the community as a whole under the direction of a lord.
- From the room allotted to me I could look out over a varied prospect of farmland and heath, terminated by the woody slopes which everywhere hemmed in the valley.
- I have run several thousand feet of butternut lumber from my farmland through my own sawmill and used it for a variety of purposes.
- The man doesn't call the creation of five hundred thousand square miles of new farmland destructive exploitation, does he?