land

Plural: lands

Noun

• the land on which real estate is located
  • "he built the house on land leased from the city"
• material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
  • "the land had never been plowed"
• territory over which rule or control is exercised
  • "he made it the law of the land"
• the solid part of the earth's surface
  • "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"
• the territory occupied by a nation
  • "he returned to the land of his birth"
• a domain in which something is dominant
  • "a land of make-believe"
• extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
  • "the family owned a large estate on Long Island"
• the people who live in a nation or country
• a politically organized body of people under a single government
  • "an industrialized land"
• United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
• agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
  • "there's no work on the land any more"
• The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
• Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
• A country or region.
• A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
• The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
• Realm, domain.
• The ground left unploughed between furrows.
• Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
• A shock or fright.
• A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
• On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
• The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
• The ground or floor.
• The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
• In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
• In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
• The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
• A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
• lant; urine

Verb

Verb Forms: landed, landing, lands

• To set down on solid ground or to achieve something successfully.
• reach or come to rest
  • "The bird landed on the highest branch"
  • "The plane landed in Istanbul"
• cause to come to the ground
  • "the pilot managed to land the airplane safely"
• bring into a different state
  • "this may land you in jail"
• bring ashore
  • "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the beach of the island"
• deliver (a blow)
  • "He landed several blows on his opponent's head"
• arrive on shore
  • "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor"
• shoot at and force to come down
  • "the enemy landed several of our aircraft"
• To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
• To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
• To come into rest.
• To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
• To bring to land.
• To capture or arrest.
• To acquire; to secure.
• To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
• (of a blow) To deliver.
• (of a punch) To connect
• To go down well with an audience.

Examples

• good or bad land for growing potatoes
• He got an awful land when the police arrived.
• He hoped to land a bingo, but only managed a small word.
• I'm going to Disneyland.
• If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!
• Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
• Most insects live on land.
• Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
• She landed a job at the company.
• Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.
• There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
• They come from a faraway land.
• Too ugly to ever land a chick
• wet land

Synonyms

acres, body politic, bring, bring down, commonwealth, country, demesne, Din Land, domain, down, dry land, earth, Edwin Herbert Land, estate, farming, ground, kingdom, landed estate, nation, put down, realm, res publica, set ashore, set down, shoot down, shore, soil, solid ground, state, terra firma, furlong

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