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ploughland

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
plough-land
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Land that has been or is meant to be ploughed.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Synonym of carucate.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English plowelond, plouȝ-lond, plow-land, equivalent to plough + land. Compare German Pflugland, Old Norse plógsland (“ploughland”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

ploughlands (plural) plowland (alternative)

Synonyms

carucate cultivated land farmland plowland tilled land tillage tilth

Questions

What does ploughland mean?
Land that has been or is meant to be ploughed.
Where does ploughland come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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