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farmland

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈfɑːmlænd/
  • US: /ˈfɑːɹmlænd/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: F AA1 R M L AE2 N D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a rural area where farming is practiced

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: farming area

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: country, rural area

3

noun

Meaning 3

arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cultivated land, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: land, ground, soil

Narrower terms: fallow

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English farm Proto-Indo-European *lendh- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land English farmland From farm + land.

Across languages

Translations

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: أَرْض زِرَاعِيَّة (ʔarḍ zirāʕiyya) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Bengali: খামার (khamar) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Chinese Mandarin: 農田 /农田 (nóngtián) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Chinese Mandarin: 田地 (tiándì) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Czech: zemědělská půda — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Dutch: akkerland — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Finnish: viljelysmaa — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • French: terres agricoles — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Galician: agro — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • German: Ackerland — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Greek: αγρός (agrós) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Irish: talamh feirme — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Japanese: 農地 (nōchi) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Japanese: 畑地 (hatachi) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Japanese: 田地 — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Korean: 농경지 (nonggyeongji) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Macedonian: о́рница (órnica) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Macedonian: ора́ница (oránica) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Māori: whenua pāmu — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Quechua: chakra — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Russian: сельскохозя́йственное уго́дье (selʹskoxozjájstvennoje ugódʹje) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Russian: фе́рмерское уго́дье (férmerskoje ugódʹje) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Russian: па́хотная земля́ (páxotnaja zemljá) — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Spanish: chacra — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Spanish: chácara — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Spanish: chagra — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Spanish: pamba — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Spanish: conuco — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Swedish: jordbruksmark — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Swedish: åkermark — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
  • Welsh: tir amaeth — land which is suitable for farming and agricultural production
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