cropland C2+ Topic:General Vocabulary US /ˈkrɑpˌlænd/ UK /ˈkrɒplænd/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 noun land used or suitable for growing crops Decades of drought turned fertile cropland into dust. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · land used or suitable for... farmlandtillagearablefields ↔ Opposites wastelandwilderness Word family Related forms cropland Etymology AI details A modern compound of 'crop' (Old English 'cropp', 'head of a plant, ear of corn') + 'land' (Old English 'land'). cropp Old English land Old English View etymology graph -> Topics General Vocabulary External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # cropland **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈkrɑpˌlænd/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈkrɒplænd/ ## Meanings 1. land used or suitable for growing crops ## Examples - Decades of drought turned fertile cropland into dust. ## Synonyms - farmland - tillage - arable - fields ## Antonyms - wasteland - wilderness ## Related Forms - crop - land ## Roots and Affixes - Root: cropp - Root: land ## Etymology A modern compound of 'crop' (Old English 'cropp', 'head of a plant, ear of corn') + 'land' (Old English 'land'). ## AI Etymology Cropland is a modern compound of 'crop' (Old English 'cropp', 'head of a plant, ear of corn') + 'land' (Old English 'land'). The ancestry passes through Old English cropp and Old English land. In present use as a noun, it means "land used or suitable for growing crops", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. As a compound, its meaning is assembled from the two visible parts rather than from an opaque borrowing. Related words include crop and land. Its contrast set includes wasteland and wilderness, which clarifies the semantic boundary of the modern word. ## Topics - General Vocabulary markdown