north forty
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Farms, ranches, or agricultural land collectively.
Example Sentences
- "I headed out to the barn for a ten-minute milking job, and the cow took off and ran to the far end of the north forty."
- "In Dallas and Houston, the dominant architectural forms are glass office towers and air-conditioned shopping malls that owe more to the Bauhaus than to the North Forty."
- "President Reagan behaved like his predecessors: preaching free enterprise in Washington but playing sugar daddy on the north forty. Mr. Reagan's response to a collapse in world food prices in the early 1980's was to protect American farmers with a $19 billion subsidy."
- "[N]ot all roadside stands sell produce from the "north forty," rather their produce is the result of efforts before and after someone's day job and a fertile back yard."
- "Rush to buy acreage fueling bubble in the north forty. (subheading)"
- "[P]arts of him, uh, are as far away as the north forty. Muscle has been drawn out. . . . His arms—can you imagine?—feel longer."
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Synonyms
remote place