Word: land Part of Speech: verb 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. To descend to a surface, especially from the air. Labels: intransitive Example: The plane is about to land. 2. To alight, to descend from a vehicle. Labels: dated Example: 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. 3. To come into rest. Labels: intransitive 4. To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water. Labels: intransitive Example: 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. 5. To bring to land. Labels: transitive Example: It can be tricky to land a helicopter. Example: Use the net to land the fish. 6. To capture or arrest. Labels: informal, transitive Example: `He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour.' 7. To acquire; to secure. Labels: transitive Example: She landed a job at the company. Example: As Di Matteo celebrated and captain John Terry raised the trophy for the fourth time, the Italian increased his claims to become the permanent successor to Andre Villas-Boas by landing a trophy. 8. To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score. Labels: slang, transitive Example: Too ugly to ever land a chick. 9. To deliver (a blow). Labels: transitive Example: If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match. 10. To connect (to arrive at an intended target). Labels: intransitive Example: If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth! Example: Vice President J. D. Vance has lashed out at [Gavin] Newsom, telling Fox that the Californian’s attacks aren’t landing, because his trolling “ignores the fundamental genius of President Trump’s political success, which is that he’s authentic”; […]. 11. To go down well with an audience. Labels: figuratively, intransitive Example: Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land. Example: We told an Amelia Earhart joke yesterday—did not go great with the audience. Someone wrote: "You can't be surprised when an Amelia Earhart joke doesn't land."