Meaning & use
tillable land
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Meaning
noununcountable
Land that is suitable for plowing and growing crops.
Grammar: Uncountable; no plural form. Use it with singular verbs: 'The tillable land is fertile.'
Patterns
- tillable land for something
- acres/hectares of tillable land
- tillable land is/becomes ...
The valley contains rich tillable land for growing wheat and corn.
Only a small percentage of the country's total area is tillable land.
Farmers cleared stones from the fields to increase the amount of tillable land.
Common combinations
- acres of tillable land
- The family owns hundreds of acres of tillable land.
- tillable land for crops
- The region has plenty of tillable land for crops like rice and vegetables.
- convert ... into tillable land
- Engineers converted the marsh into tillable land.
- tillable land is scarce
- In mountainous areas, tillable land is scarce.
Synonyms and how they differ
- arable land
- Very close in meaning, but often used in more formal or technical writing about farming systems.
- farmland
- Broader: it includes pastures and orchards, not only land that is plowed.
- cultivable land
- Emphasizes the possibility of cultivation rather than the act of plowing.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: tillable land or arable?
tillable land vs arable
Similar but not identical: 'arable' focuses on the ability to grow crops, while 'tillable' specifically refers to land that can be plowed.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'tillable land' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Option 1 is correct because tillable land is land suitable for plowing and growing crops. Option 0 is wrong because rocky slopes are not suitable for plowing. Option 2 is wrong because tillable land is not an animal. Option 3 is wrong because wet land that is too wet for farming would not be described as tillable.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “tillable land”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.