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Land

//lænd// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname from Middle English.
"After the success of Secret of Monkey Island (1990), composer Michael Land longed for a more flexible system to integrate his music into a game."

Noun

1
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water. countable, uncountable
"Most insects live on land."
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lant; urine uncountable
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agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life wordnet
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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. countable, uncountable
"There are 50 acres of land in this estate."
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the people who live in a nation or country wordnet

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A country or region. countable, uncountable
"They come from a faraway land."
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a politically organized body of people under a single government wordnet
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A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland. countable, uncountable
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the territory occupied by a nation wordnet
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The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming. countable, uncountable
"wet land"
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territory over which rule or control is exercised wordnet
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Realm, domain. countable, in-compounds, often, uncountable
"I'm going to Disneyland."
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the solid part of the earth's surface wordnet
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The ground left unploughed between furrows. countable, uncountable
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material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) wordnet
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Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing. countable, uncountable
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extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for their own use wordnet
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A shock or fright. Ireland, colloquial, countable, uncountable
"He got an awful land when the police arrived."
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the land on which real estate is located wordnet
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A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires. countable, uncountable
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a domain in which something is dominant wordnet
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On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits. countable, uncountable
"Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch."
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The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc. countable, uncountable
"Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices."
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The ground or floor. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate"
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The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing. countable, uncountable
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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. countable, uncountable
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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. countable, uncountable
"The FBI maintains a database, the General Rifling Characteristics (GRC) file, which is organized by caliber, number of lands and grooves, direction of twist, and width of lands and grooves, to help an examiner figure out the origin of a recovered bullet."
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A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry. Scotland, countable, historical, uncountable

Verb

1
To descend to a surface, especially from the air. intransitive
"The plane is about to land."
2
bring into a different state wordnet
3
To alight, to descend from a vehicle. dated
"10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed."
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reach or come to rest wordnet
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To come into rest. intransitive

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cause to come to the ground wordnet
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To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water. intransitive
"Tatan and Erhtan are two small islands in the sea southwest of Kinmen.[…]A contingent of some 30 Communist troops tried to land at Erhtan, but were disarmed by Government defenders."
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shoot at and force to come down wordnet
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To bring to land. transitive
"It can be tricky to land a helicopter."
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arrive on shore wordnet
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To capture or arrest. informal, transitive
"`He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour.'"
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bring ashore wordnet
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To acquire; to secure. transitive
"She landed a job at the company."
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deliver (a blow) wordnet
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To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score. slang, transitive
"Too ugly to ever land a chick."
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To deliver. transitive
"If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match."
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To connect (to arrive at an intended target). intransitive
"If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!"
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To go down well with an audience. figuratively, intransitive
"Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Cognates Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), Yola lhoan, lloan, loan, londe, lone (“land”), North Frisian loun, luin, lun, Lön, lönj, löön (“land”), Saterland Frisian Lound (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Limburgish Land, landj, Laïnt (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), Luxembourgish and German Land (“land, country, state”), Vilamovian łaond (“land”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lędo (“heath, wasteland”), French lande (“heath”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From Middle English *land, from Old English hland. More at lant.

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