ploughland

Other forms of ploughland

plural

ploughlands·

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 ploughland

What does ploughland mean?

ploughland means "arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops".

How many syllables are in ploughland?

ploughland has 2 syllables: plough-land. The stress falls on "plough".

What is another word for ploughland?

Close synonyms include cultivated land, farmland, plowland, tilled land, tillage. 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 ploughland a common word?

ploughland 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.