tillage

1. 1.

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

   Synonymscultivated landfarmlandplowlandploughlandtilled landtilth

   Broaderland

   Narrowerfallow
2. 2.

   the cultivation of soil for raising crops

   Broaderculture

Other forms of tillage

plural

tillages·

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 tillage

What does tillage mean?

tillage means "arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tillage?

tillage has 2 syllables: til-lage. The stress falls on "til". In IPA it is /ˈtɪlɑdʒ/.

What is another word for tillage?

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

tillage 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.