▪ I. ˈdownland1
[f. down n.1; cf. OE. d{uacu}nland.]
Land forming downs; hilly pasture-land.
| [c 1000 ælfric Deut. i. 7 Feld landum & dun landum.] 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 343/2 There are also about 50,000 acres of down-land. 1884 W. J. Courthope Addison ii. 27 Salisbury Plain, with..its open tracts of undulating downland. |
▪ II. ˈdownland2
[Cf. upland.]
Land lying low, or sloping downwards; in quot. attrib.
| 1839 Stonehouse Axholme 399 Descending the downland lawns. |