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dairyland

American  
[dair-ee-land] / ˈdɛər iˌlænd /

noun

  1. an area or region specializing in dairy production, as Wisconsin and Minnesota in the U.S.

  2. land suitable for growing forage crops for dairy cattle.


Etymology

Origin of dairyland

dairy + -land


Example Sentences

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Follow bison's historic range east, into the heart of America's dairyland, and you'll find a small farm tucked in Wisconsin's Northwoods where some Yellowstone bison have found a home.

From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2022

Wisconsin is America's dairyland, but much more than that.

From US News ● Apr. 4, 2016

Life was simple and uncomplicated in the dairyland village of Bonduel, Wis., and the oldtimers wanted to keep it that way.

From Time Magazine Archive

Albert Lea, Minn, is a clean, wide-avenued lakeside city* of 12,000, a hundred miles south of Minneapolis, smack in the middle of the rich northern dairyland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Throughout the world they do extol The fame of our town Ingersoll, The capital of dairyland, To-night it seems like fairy land, The youth and beauty here arrayed, So sweet and neat each dairymaid.

From Poems of James McIntyre by James McIntyre

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