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# farmland

«farmland» in Mova's school dictionary: **land used for farming: growing crops or keeping animals** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (farmland, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

Farmland is land used for farming: growing crops or keeping animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmland/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography lessons pupils study how land is used: farmland, towns, forests; in science, farmland feeds people and changes habitats. Phrases: «acres of farmland», «surrounded by farmland», «good farmland».

### examples

- The train passed through miles of farmland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmland/#x1)
- Our village is surrounded by farmland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmland/#x2)
- Rivers make the farmland around them rich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmland/#x3)
- Some forests were cut down to make farmland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmland/#x4)
- Sheep grazed on the green farmland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmland/#x5)
- Keep gates closed when you walk across farmland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmland/#x6)
- The map shows farmland in yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmland/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «a lot of farmland», not «farmlands» (though «farmlands» appears in poems). Countryside code: shut gates, keep dogs on leads, stay on paths.

### In the corpora

- [Venice had little farmland but grew rich from trade between Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, from about 1000 to 1500.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/72-why-some-places-grew-rich/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «farmland» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/farmland/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.