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say it: MUUR-land
moorland is a noun meaning "open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss". It carries one recorded sense.
open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moorland come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.