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moorland en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From Middle English morelond, equivalent to moor + land. Compare Old Norse mýrlendi (“moorland”).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.
   • Troutbeck station, 10 miles from Keswick, in the heart of wild moorland, is the most isolated on the line. 1961 October, 'Voyageur', “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:
   • The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed. 1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 593:

Forms

Deriveds

Staffordshire Moorlands · moorlander

Hypernyms

land

Synonyms

moor

Translations (17)

fi nummi (land covered with heather or bracken) · gd mòinteach (land covered with heather or bracken) · nl heide (land covered with heather or bracken) · gl braña (land covered with heather or bracken) · nl veen (land covered with heather or bracken) · gl páramo (land covered with heather or bracken) · it brughiera (land covered with heather or bracken) · gl bouza (land covered with heather or bracken) · fr bruyère (land covered with heather or bracken) · it landa (land covered with heather or bracken) · fa خلنگزار (land covered with heather or bracken) · fr lande (land covered with heather or bracken) · tl labunan (land covered with heather or bracken) · gd monadh (land covered with heather or bracken) · pt charneca (land covered with heather or bracken) · gd sliabh (land covered with heather or bracken) · fr brande (land covered with heather or bracken)