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TILLED LAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tilled land mean? 

TILLED LAND (noun)
  The noun TILLED LAND has 1 sense:

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

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


 Dictionary entry details 


TILLED 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 ("tilled 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 "tilled land"):

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


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