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Webster 1913 Edition
Arable
Ar′a-ble
,Adj.
Fit for plowing or tillage; – hence, often applied to land which has been plowed or tilled.
Ar′a-ble
,Noun.
Arable land; plow land.
Webster 1828 Edition
Arable
AR'ABLE
,Adj.
Fit for plowing or tillage; hence often applied to land which has been plowed.
Definition 2024
arable
arable
English
Adjective
arable (comparative more arable, superlative most arable)
- (agriculture, of land) Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with pasturable lands such as heaths).
- 1945 May, George Orwell, chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land […]
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- (agriculture, NGO jargon, of land) Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with permanently-cropped lands such as orchards).
Translations
suitable for cultivation
French
Etymology
From Old French arable, from Latin arābilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ʁabl/
Adjective
arable m, f (plural arables)