plowland

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscultivated landfarmlandploughlandtilled landtillagetilth

   Broaderland

   Narrowerfallow

Other forms of plowland

plural

plowlands·

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 plowland

What does plowland mean?

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

How many syllables are in plowland?

plowland has 2 syllables: plow-land. The stress falls on "plow".

What is another word for plowland?

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

plowland 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.