Word: land Part of Speech: noun 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”). 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”). Pronunciation: /lænd/, [lænd], [land], [ɫänd], [ɫeə̯nd] ~ [ɫɛə̯nd] 1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Most insects live on land. 2. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: There are 50 acres of land in this estate. 3. A country or region. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They come from a faraway land. 4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland. Labels: countable, uncountable 5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: wet land Example: good or bad land for growing potatoes 6. Realm, domain. Labels: countable, in-compounds, often, uncountable Example: I'm going to Disneyland. Example: Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world. 7. The ground left unploughed between furrows. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A shock or fright. Labels: Ireland, colloquial, countable, uncountable Example: He got an awful land when the police arrived. 10. A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires. Labels: countable, uncountable 11. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. 12. The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices. 13. The ground or floor. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate 14. The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing. Labels: countable, uncountable 15. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable 16. 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. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: 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. Example: The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer. 17. A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry. Labels: Scotland, countable, historical, uncountable