Definitions
An area of rolling hills (downs), often grassy pasture over chalk or limestone.
Word origin
From Old English dūnland, equivalent to down + land.
Used in a sentence
“Hail! every distant hill, and downland plain! Your dew-hid beauties Fancy oft unveils;”
“[…] I walked on to Canterbury early in the morning. It was now winter again; and the fresh, cold windy day, and the sweeping downland, brightened up my hopes a little.”
“I traversed the downland Whereon the bleak hill-graves of Chieftains Bulge barren of tree;”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Rolling chalk hills”8 letters
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