PLOUGHLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ploughland mean? 

• PLOUGHLAND (noun)
  The noun PLOUGHLAND has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PLOUGHLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLOUGHLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; plowland; tillage; tilled land; tilth

Hypernyms ("ploughland" is a kind of...):

ground; land; soil (material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ploughland"):

fallow (cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons)