Land used for growing crops or raising animals; agricultural land collectively.
From 'farm' + 'land,' a compound noun. Emerged in modern English to distinguish cultivated agricultural territory from wilderness or urban areas, particularly in colonial expansion and industrial-era land surveys.
Farmlands are disappearing globally—since 1950, about a billion hectares of farmland have been lost to urbanization and degradation. The plural form 'farmlands' is increasingly used by environmental scientists documenting this transformation, giving the word urgency in contemporary discourse.
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