farmland

[ fahrm-land ]

noun

1. land under cultivation or capable of being cultivated:

   to protect valuable farmland from erosion.

farmland

/ ˈfɑːmˌlænd /

noun

1. land used or suitable for farming

Word History and Origins

Origin of farmland¹

First recorded in 1630–40; farm + land

Example Sentences

In 1938, this sediment made for rich farmland, but Walter Stopa thought this particular hill had a higher purpose than agriculture.

From Washington Post

Researchers have found that a cash payment program targeted at the rural poor in Indonesia also led to a 30 percent reduction in deforestation, as struggling communities tend to clear more farmland.

From Ozy

You’ve talked about how Queens and the Bronx were farmland originally.

From Eater

Urbanization only makes this harder, cutting the amount of farmland available and putting more people in closer proximity to each other.

From MIT Technology Review

That farmland is partly taken up by the animals themselves, but it’s also used to grow crops like corn and soy exclusively for animal consumption.

From Singularity Hub 

The petroleum industry has depicted fracking as a few antiseptic drills dug on peaceful farmland.

From The Daily Beast

No lasting jobs, no cheaper gas, and a chance to kill off one-fourth of U.S. farmland and maybe the planet.

From The Daily Beast

In 1934 crops had failed on more than six million acres of Texas farmland.

From The Daily Beast

These counties have inner-ring and outer-ring suburbs, still further out exurbs, and even a few patches of farmland.

From The Daily Beast

It thus falls to IS to provide drinking water and irrigation to massive areas of farmland.

From The Daily Beast

I have traveled through miles of this farmland in France, and its beauty was a splendid poem of what God had helped man to do.

From Project Gutenberg

And to leave her in farmland would be to let her slip back again out of accord with him.

From Project Gutenberg

His mind dwelt longingly upon Hascombe Hall and the acres of parkland, moorland, and farmland that were its inheritance.

From Project Gutenberg

These we reached and crossed safely, finding ourselves once again in farmland and a country of hedges and dykes.

From Project Gutenberg

The marvel of the place to me was the thousands and thousands of acres of splendid farmland on which no one lived.

From Project Gutenberg

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