MOORLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moorland mean? 

• MOORLAND (noun)
  The noun MOORLAND has 1 sense:

1. open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

  Familiarity information: MOORLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOORLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

moor; moorland

Hypernyms ("moorland" is a kind of...):

champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)

Instance hyponyms:

Marston Moor (a former moor in northern England)

 Context examples 

Then, off the huge crowd started, horsemen, vehicles, and pedestrians, rolling slowly over the broad face of the moorland.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had heard of his presence in the district and had once or twice caught sight of his tall figure upon the moorland paths.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

" I listened. The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The sun lay low in the west upon a purple cloud, whence it threw a mild, chastening light over the wild moorland and glittered on the fringe of forest turning the withered leaves into flakes of dead gold, the brighter for the black depths behind them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the well-known names of these towns I learn in what county I have lighted; a north-midland shire, dusk with moorland, ridged with mountain: this I see.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Strings of pedestrians, most of them so weary and dust-covered that it was evident that they had walked the thirty miles from London during the night, were plodding along by the sides of the road or trailing over the long mottled slopes of the moorland.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They clung to the purple moors behind and around their dwelling—to the hollow vale into which the pebbly bridle-path leading from their gate descended, and which wound between fern-banks first, and then amongst a few of the wildest little pasture-fields that ever bordered a wilderness of heath, or gave sustenance to a flock of grey moorland sheep, with their little mossy- faced lambs:—they clung to this scene, I say, with a perfect enthusiasm of attachment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had, by cross-ways and by- paths, once more drawn near the tract of moorland; and now, only a few fields, almost as wild and unproductive as the heath from which they were scarcely reclaimed, lay between me and the dusky hill.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sit there, she said, placing me on the sofa, while we take our things off and get the tea ready; it is another privilege we exercise in our little moorland home—to prepare our own meals when we are so inclined, or when Hannah is baking, brewing, washing, or ironing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)