moorland

1. 1.

   open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

   Synonymsmoor

   Broaderplain

   NarrowerMarston Moor

Other forms of moorland

plural

moorlands·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about moorland

What does moorland mean?

moorland means "open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss".

How many syllables are in moorland?

moorland has 2 syllables: moor-land. The stress falls on "moor". In IPA it is /ˈmʊɹˌlænd/.

What is another word for moorland?

Close synonyms include moor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is moorland a common word?

moorland is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with moorland?

29 words rhyme with moorland. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.