farmland

• farm land

From farm +‎ land.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːmlænd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːɹmlænd/

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farmland (usually uncountable, plural farmlands)

1. Land that is suitable for farming and agricultural production.
   • 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:

     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.

   • 2015 November 24, Patrick Barkham, “Pesticide may be reason butterfly numbers are falling in UK, says study”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Other common farmland butterflies to have suffered steep declines include the small tortoiseshell (64%), the wall brown (37%) and the large skipper (35%).

   • 2023 September 24, Michael D. Smith, “Opinion: Biden’s American Climate Corps could be the lasting legacy of this generation”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The 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.

• land

• farmfields, farmyards

• farmscape, landscape

• acreage

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “farmland”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.