CULTIVATED LAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cultivated land mean? 

• CULTIVATED LAND (noun)
  The noun CULTIVATED LAND has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CULTIVATED LAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CULTIVATED LAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; plowland; tillage; tilled land; tilth

Hypernyms ("cultivated land" is a kind of...):

ground; land; soil (material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cultivated land"):

fallow (cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons)

 Context examples 

We might not, said Mr. Micawber, looking round the room as if it represented several hundred acres of highly cultivated land, on the first responsibility becoming due, have been successful in our harvest, or we might not have got our harvest in.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)