tilled land
- noun
- /tɪld lænd/
:
tierra cultivada
- The farmer worked hard every day on his tilled land to ensure a good harvest this season.
Examples
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On average, landowners held 12.8 acres of tilled land, about the same as farmers in other Valley farming towns such as Amherst.
Academic text (1993) -
A study done in the late 1970s revealed that 70 percent of it was occurring on just 8 percent of the tilled land.
Academic text (1996) -
Also, he says, tilled land naturally has more available nitrogen because tillage aerates the soil and stimulates the breakdown of old plant material.
Academic text (1995) -
After a long winter, the garden looked lush and vibrant, with the tilled land ready for planting.
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The report highlighted that most crops were grown on tilled land in the region, maximizing agricultural output.
Synonyms
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1.0
An area of open land used for farming or grazing
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1.7
Land where people grow crops or raise animals
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3.0
Land that is used to grow crops like grains or vegetables
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2.9
Land prepared and used for growing crops like wheat or corn
Land prepared by farmers for growing crops
Land used to grow grain like wheat or corn
A large area of land where farmers grow wheat
Antonyms
How Cultivated
Surface Forms
Morphology
This phrase is fully compositional: 'tilled' means plowed or cultivated and 'land' means an area of earth, so a learner who knows both words can readily infer 'land that has been cultivated'. The adjective+noun pattern (past-participle used attributively) is a standard, cross-linguistically common construction, making the expression transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Tilled land comes from the farm image of tilled soil turned by a plow and neat rows in the land ready for planting. That's why tilled land means 'land prepared for crops'.