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Meaning of "swidden" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SWIDDEN

Northern English dialect variant of swithen to burn.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SWIDDEN

swidden  [ˈswɪdən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SWIDDEN

noun
adjective
verb
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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Swidden is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SWIDDEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

swidden

Slash-and-burn

Slash-and-burn is an agricultural technique that involves the cutting and burning of trees and plants in forests or woodlands to create fields. It is subsistence agriculture that typically uses little technology or other tools. It is typically part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding. Old terms for slash-and-burn in English include assarting, swidden, and fire-fallow cultivation. Today the term slash-and-burn is mainly associated with tropical rain forests. Slash-and-burn techniques are used by between 200 and 500 million people worldwide. In 2004 it was estimated that, in Brazil alone, 500,000 small farmers each cleared an average of one hectare of forest per year. The technique is not sustainable beyond a certain population density because, without the trees, the soil quality soon becomes too poor to support crops. The farmers have to move on to virgin forest and repeat the process. Methods such as Inga alley farming have been proposed as an alternative to this ecological destruction.

Definition of swidden in the English dictionary

The definition of swidden in the dictionary is an area of land where slash-and-burn techniques have been used to prepare it for cultivation.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SWIDDEN


Aden
ˈeɪdən
Aidan
ˈeɪdən
Croydon
ˈkrɔɪdən
Dryden
ˈdraɪdən
forbidden
fəˈbɪdən
guidon
ˈɡaɪdən
Haden
ˈheɪdən
handmaiden
ˈhændˌmeɪdən
Haydn
ˈhaɪdən
hidden
ˈhɪdən
laden
ˈleɪdən
Leiden
ˈlaɪdən
Leyden
ˈlaɪdən
maiden
ˈmeɪdən
menhaden
mɛnˈheɪdən
midden
ˈmɪdən
Poseidon
pɒˈsaɪdən
ridden
ˈrɪdən
Sheridan
ˈʃɛrɪdən
widen
ˈwaɪdən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SWIDDEN

swift
swift fox
swift moth
swift-flowing
swift-footed
swifter
Swiftian
swiftie
swifties
swiftlet
swiftly
swiftness
swifty
swig
swigged
swigger
swigging
swiler
swill

WORDS THAT END LIKE SWIDDEN

angst-ridden
bedridden
bestridden
bidden
bug-ridden
debt-ridden
flea-ridden
hag-ridden
kitchen midden
outridden
overbidden
overridden
plague-ridden
priest-ridden
stridden
strife-ridden
sudden
unforbidden
unhidden
unridden
well-hidden

Synonyms and antonyms of swidden in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «swidden» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SWIDDEN

Find out the translation of swidden to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of swidden from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «swidden» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

轮歇
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

swidden
570 millions of speakers

English

swidden
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

swidden
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الأراضي بعد حرقها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

подсечно-огневое
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

roça
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

swidden
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

brûlis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bertukar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

swidden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

焼き畑
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

swidden
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Swelled
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

du canh du cư
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

swidden
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Swidden
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

swidden
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

swidden
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

swidden
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

підсічно - вогневе
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

swidden
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

swidden
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

swidden
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

swidden
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

swidden
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of swidden

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SWIDDEN»

The term «swidden» is normally little used and occupies the 133.250 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SWIDDEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «swidden» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «swidden» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about swidden

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWIDDEN»

Discover the use of swidden in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to swidden and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Swidden Agriculture in Indonesia: The Subsistence Strategies ...
The Subsistence Strategies of the Kalimantan Kant Michael R. Dove. cast sown. The plants that grow from this seed are too small to be divided in two, but they grow so close to— gether as to require thinning out for optimum growth. The most  ...
Michael R. Dove, 1985
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Swidden Fallow Agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon
This pioneering study is a team effort aimed at describing & analyzing the traditional agroforestry systems of the Bora Indians in the village of Brillo Nuevo & other Peruvian communities.
William M. Denevan, Christine Padoch, 1987
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Rainforest Ecosystems of East Kalimantan: El Niño, Drought, ...
6.1. Introduction. Swidden agriculture has a long history in Borneo, and there is evidence of major forest clearing 2500 B.P (before present). (Maloney 1985). Swidden agriculture is still the major source of livelihood for the indigenous people of ...
Edi Guhardja, 2000
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Counting the Costs: Economic Growth and Environmental Change ...
DIETRICH SCHMIDT- VOGT Swidden farming practised by hill peoples is perceived as one of the fundamental agents of ecological change in the highlands of Northern Thailand, affecting vegetation composition and structure, soil properties, ...
Jonathan Rigg, 1995
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Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South ...
Cultural and Political Valorization The difference between the swidden and pond field systems in scarce factors of production, and in whether returns to land or labor are maximized, is associated with a series of differences in cultural values.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 2003
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Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
Shifting Cultivation Shifting or swidden cultivation is a seminomadic form of agriculture, still widely practiced today (mainly in forested environments]. Indeed, it was swidden cultivation that enabled early agriculturalists to move beyond the ...
David Christian, 2011
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The Indigenous World 2004
The largest policy-based threat to "indigenous peoples" in Laos appears to be opium eradication, followed by swidden agriculture eradication, land and forest allocation, village consolidation, and the construction of large infrastructure projects ...
Diana Vinding, 2004
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Landscapes and Societies: Selected Cases
However, many swidden fields, once opened, were turned into permanent fields, and rice paddies could be used to grow winter vegetables or winter cash crops such as rush. Thus, outlining the history of dry-field cropping is a larger task than  ...
I. Peter Martini, Ward Chesworth, 2010
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Tropical Homegardens: A Time-Tested Example of Sustainable ...
CHAPTER 10 GENDER AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS IN SWIDDEN AND HOMEGARDENS IN LATIN AMERICA P.L. HOWARD Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, the Netherlands; ...
B. Mohan Kumar, P. K. R. Nair, 2007
10
Remaining Karen: A Study of Cultural Reproduction and the ...
Swidden. Divination. The very first rite that is performed in association with swidden cultivation is the rite called ka lau hy', or the “divining of swiddens”. This is the simplest of all the rites performed in the agricultural cycle and it is held after the ...
Ananda Rajah, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWIDDEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term swidden is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rich forest diversity found in new Yunnan, China preserve
Additionally, the proliferation of pioneer species in the lowland zone indicates disturbance of the preserve by historical swidden practices (slash and burn ... «Mongabay.com, Jul 15»
2
Villagers say they are 4th Ifugao tribe
Around 2,700 square meters of the domain, which are composed of rice fields, swidden farms and hunting grounds, have been secured by the Imuntab, ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
3
Palawan: Stop Blaming Indigenous Peoples' Farming Practices …
Meanwhile, traditional upland farming practices implemented through swidden ('slash-and-burn') technology--known locally as kaingin or more appropriately ... «Intercontinental Cry, Apr 15»
4
Signs of climate change and adaptation in the ancient Maya lowlands
The dominant agricultural technique shifted from swidden—a method of clearing land by slashing and burning—to a more intensive and concentrated system of ... «Phys.Org, Apr 15»
5
Sustainable agriculture in Malawi: a desperate struggle
When the country's population was smaller, land was farmed under the 'swidden' system: vegetation was cut and burned, cultivated for a few years, then left ... «The Ecologist, Apr 15»
6
Summer not all beach in Palawan; it is the season to burn forests
BILL GATES WAS HERE The practice of 'kaingin' (swidden or slash-and-burn farming) is destroying swaths of forestland along the national highway in Puerto ... «Inquirer.net, Apr 15»
7
Vast agribusiness concessions mask unprecedented deforestation …
“Local [Kachin] populations who have been forcibly displaced from their upland swidden agro-forestry lands for the Chinese agricultural estates are further ... «Myanmar Times, Mar 15»
8
Isolated Amazon Tribe Survival Monitored With Space Technology …
"Most of these tribes are swidden horticulturalists and so their slash-and-burn fields are observable in satellite images. But, they do move around, sometimes in ... «International Business Times UK, Nov 14»
9
Briefing paper on Shifting Cultivation, Livelihood and Food Security …
This is also know as rotational agriculture or swidden farming. What has been overstressed is the “ slash and burn” component, and the cultivation and fallow ... «Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact, Sep 14»
10
Oil Palm Expansion
The democratically managed community-owned forest land, where earlier swidden cultivation was practiced, is also being converted to individual oil palm land ... «Economic and Political Weekly, Sep 14»

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