land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lănd
ipa: /lænd/
ipa: [ɫeə̯nd]
ipa: [ɫɛə̯nd]
ipa: [ɫɛə̯nd]
ipa: [læ(ː)nd]
ipa: [lænd]
ipa: [leːnd]
ipa: [lænd]
ipa: [land]
rhymes: -ænd
Forms: form: lands
Etymology: 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”).
Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), North Frisian lun, Lön, lönj (“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”).
Senses: examples: text: Most insects live on land.
glosses: The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
examples: text: There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: They come from a faraway land.
glosses: A country or region.
glosses: A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
examples: text: wet land
text: good or bad land for growing potatoes
glosses: The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
examples: text: I'm going to Disneyland.
text: Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
glosses: Realm, domain.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: furlong
glosses: The ground left unploughed between furrows.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: furlong
coordinate_terms: headland
furlong
glosses: Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
examples: text: He got an awful land when the police arrived.
glosses: A shock or fright.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record, page 72:
glosses: On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
examples: text: Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
examples: text: her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7:
glosses: The ground or floor.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2008 August 1, Lisa Steele, “Ballistics”, in Eric York Drogin, editor, Science for Lawyers, American Bar Association, page 16:
text: The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.
ref: 2012 November 15, “One Way to Get Off”, in Elementary, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller):
topics: ballistics
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: 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.
glosses: A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
Hyponyms: word: bookland
word: borderland
word: brushland
word: bushland
word: cloud cuckoo-land
word: Crown land
word: Disneyland
word: downland
word: dreamland
word: dry land
alt: fantasyland
word: fantasy land
word: farmland
word: Fiordland
word: flatland
word: grassland
word: herbland
word: highland
word: homeland
word: Hurdland
word: inland
word: Lalaland
word: Levelland
word: lowland
word: mainland
word: midland
word: moorland
word: Newfoundland
word: no man's land
word: No Man's Land
word: Northland
word: northland
word: outland
word: overland
word: pastureland
word: pineland
word: playland
word: plowland
word: ploughland
word: Queensland
word: revenue land
word: Southland
word: southland
word: tableland
word: TV land
word: upland
word: Westland
word: wildland
word: wonderland
word: woodland
Derived terms: word: adland
word: airland
word: aland
word: aridland
word: autoland
word: backland
word: barrel of land
word: benchland
word: Bergisches Land
word: birthland
word: blackland
word: blogland
word: bogland
word: bottomland
word: bowerland
word: buckshot land
word: byland
word: caneland
word: canyonland
word: chalkland
word: Chicagoland
word: Chink land
word: chink land
word: chopstick land
word: Cleveland
word: cloud cuckoo land
word: cloud-cuckoo-land
word: cloudland
word: clubland
word: coastland
word: common land
word: convertible land
word: copland
word: cornland
word: cotland
word: counterland
word: cradleland
word: crash land
word: croftland
word: cropland
word: crown land
word: cubeland
word: Curtisland
word: dairyland
word: Damaraland
word: Dayak land
word: deadland
word: desertland
word: do a land-office business
word: dockland
word: domed land snail
word: driftland
word: dryland
word: duneland
word: eastland
word: edgeland
word: Egyptland
word: Elfland
word: Ellsworth Land
word: escapeland
word: estate in land
word: fairyland
word: farm land
word: fatherland
word: fat of the land
word: fernland
word: filmland
word: Fingoland
word: fireland
word: flogging the land
word: floodland
word: folkland
word: foras land
word: forbyland
word: Fordlandia
word: foreland
word: forestland
word: Frankland
word: Freelander
word: freeman on the land
word: gameland
word: gangland
word: gangsterland
word: geländeläufer
word: genderland
word: ghostland
word: glebe-land
word: glory-land
word: gorseland
word: Graham Land
word: grainland
word: grazeland
word: Greenland
word: Groveland
word: gumland
word: hayland
word: headland
word: heartland
word: heathland
word: heteroland
word: Highland
word: hipsterland
word: Hungarland
word: Iceland
word: interest in land
word: island
word: Jockland
word: Kaiser Wilhelm II Land
word: King Frederick VIII Land
word: Kirkland
word: kirkland
word: Kiwiland
word: lackland
word: lakeland
word: Lala land
word: La-La Land
word: la-la land
word: la-la-land
word: landability
word: landable
word: land acknowledgement
word: land acknowledgment
word: land agent
word: land ahoy
word: land art
word: land artist
word: landbank
word: landbanking
word: landbase
word: landbased
word: land battleship
word: land-beaver
word: land before time
word: landbirding
word: landblink
word: landboc
word: landbook
word: landbound
word: land breeze
word: land bridge
word: land bubble
word: landcare
word: land clearer
word: landcover
word: land crab
word: land cress
word: land cruiser
word: land degradation
word: land-diving
word: land diving
word: land down under
word: lander
word: landfall
word: land-farer
word: landfarming
word: landfill
word: landflood
word: land force
word: landform
word: landfowl
word: landful
word: landfyrd
word: land girl
word: landgrab
word: landgrabber
word: land-grant
word: land grant
word: land guard
word: landguard
word: land gull
word: land-held
word: land ho
word: landhold
word: landholder
word: landholding
word: landhopper
word: land ironclad
word: landish
word: land-jobber
word: land-jobbing
word: landlady
word: landleaper
word: land-leech
word: land legs
word: landless
word: landlike
word: land line
word: landline
word: landliving
word: landlock
word: landlocked
word: land-locked salmon
word: landlord
word: landlouper
word: land-lover
word: landlubber
word: landly
word: landman
word: landmark
word: land mark
word: land mass
word: landmass
word: land mile
word: land mine
word: landmine
word: landmonger
word: landocracy
word: landocrat
word: land of a thousand hills
word: Land of Fire
word: land of fruits and nuts
word: land of milk and honey
word: land of Nod
word: land of opportunity
word: land of plenty
word: land of steady habits
word: Land of the Ascendant Sun
word: land of the free
word: land of the living
word: Land of the Long White Cloud
word: land o' Goshen
word: land on one's feet
word: Land o' the Leal
word: landowner
word: landowning
word: Land Park
word: land patent
word: landphoon
word: land pirate
word: landplane
word: land poor
word: land-poor
word: land quillwort
word: landrace
word: landrail
word: landreeve
word: land register
word: land rights
word: land rights for gay whales
word: land run
word: landrush
word: land rush
word: land sailing
word: land sake
word: land sake alive
word: land sakes
word: land sakes alive
word: land-salamander
word: landscape
word: landscraper
word: landscrip
word: Land's End
word: landshark
word: land-shark
word: land shark
word: land-sharking
word: land shrimp
word: landsick
word: land sickness
word: landside
word: landslide
word: landsliding
word: landslip
word: land slug
word: land smock
word: land snail
word: landspout
word: landspreading
word: land spring
word: land-surface
word: land surface
word: land surveyor
word: land take
word: land-take
word: land tax
word: land tenure
word: land the plane
word: land torpedo
word: land train
word: land under
word: land up over
word: land-use
english: see also land use
translation: see also land use
word: land use
word: landwaiter
word: landward
word: landwards
word: landwhale
word: land whale
word: land wind
word: land with one's bum in the butter
word: landworker
word: land yacht
word: land-yacht
word: land yachting
word: law of the land
word: layland
word: lay of the land
word: Levelland
word: lie of the land
word: linksland
word: live off the land
word: loessland
word: lotus land
word: Lotusland
word: lubberland
word: magazineland
word: make land
word: marchland
word: markland
word: Markland
word: marshland
word: Mashonaland
word: Matabeleland
word: meadowland
word: mealie land
word: merland
word: Midland
word: mireland
word: misland
word: morning-land
word: morning land
word: mossland
word: motherland
word: muckland
word: mudland
word: multiland
word: my land
word: Namaqualand
word: native land
word: neckland
word: Netherland
word: Netherlands
word: netherlands
word: never fight a land war in Asia
word: neverland
word: never-never land
word: never start a land war in Asia
word: no-man's-land
word: no-man's land
word: noman's land
word: nonland
word: Northumberland
word: Oakland
word: O'Higgins Land
word: Oklahoma land rush
word: on land
word: otherlandish
word: ounceland
word: oxland
word: paddyland
word: parentland
word: parkland
word: peatland
word: pennyland
word: Pictland
word: plainland
word: plotland
word: Poland
word: Portland
word: portland
word: power in the land
word: prairieland
word: promised land
word: pure land
word: quangoland
word: quarterland
word: rainland
word: ranchland
word: rangeland
word: restaurantland
word: riceland
word: Richland
word: Richlands
word: rimland
word: rockland
word: sabbath of the land
word: sageland
word: scabland
word: scarpland
word: Schengenland
word: scrubland
word: sedgeland
word: how the land lies
word: Seriland
word: set foot on land
word: set the land
word: shackland
word: shadowland
word: shareland
word: shoreland
word: shrubland
word: sire-land
word: skyland
word: slobland
word: soapland
word: soft-land
word: soft land
word: spit of land
word: splash-land
word: stumpland
word: Sundaland
word: swampland
word: Swaziland
word: thaneland
word: theatreland
word: thirstland
word: tideland
word: townland
word: tussockland
word: userland
word: valleyland
word: valley-land
word: valley land
word: vineland
word: washland
word: wasteland
word: waste land
word: waterland
word: Welshland
word: westland
word: wetland
word: wharfland
word: wheatland
word: white land
word: Wilkes Land
word: wineland
word: Wituland
word: Wolfe-land
word: Wolfland
word: womyn's land
word: Yankee land
word: yard of land
word: Zoom-land
word: Zoom land
word: Zululand