moorland

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

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

There are two moorland farmers. — The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
On the Moorland 183 XXII. — Antony Gray,—Gardener, LM (Leslie Moore)
While on dreary moorlands lonely curlew pipe. — The Ontario High School Reader, Aletta E. Marty

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