tilled land
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Definition
Noun: * Cultivated land; farmland: Land that has been prepared for growing crops through the process of plowing or digging. It refers to soil that is regularly worked, sown, and used for raising agricultural produce.
Usage
This term is used to specifically describe land that is actively used for agriculture. It emphasizes the human labor involved in preparing and maintaining the soil, distinguishing it from wild, uncultivated, or fallow land. * The valley was a patchwork of tilled land and green pastures. * After the harvest, the tilled land lay bare until the spring planting.
Advanced Usage
- As a measure of agricultural activity: The term can be used to discuss the extent or quality of agricultural development in an area.
- The amount of tilled land in the region has decreased due to urbanization.
Variants and Related Words
- Tillage (n): The agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation, such as plowing, harrowing, and cultivating.
- Tiller (n): A person who tills land; a farmer. Also, a lever used to turn a boat's rudder.
- Till (v): To prepare and cultivate land for crops.
Synonyms
- Cropland: Land used for growing crops.
- Plowland / Ploughland: Land that is suitable for or has been plowed.
- Cultivated land: Land that has been prepared for crops.
- Farmland: Land used for farming.
Antonyms
- Wilderness: An uncultivated, uninhabited region.
- Fallow land: Plowed land left unseeded for a season or more.
- Wasteland: Land that is barren or uncultivated.
Noun
- arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops