land
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
ballistics
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
government
lifestyle
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
politics
tools
tourism
transport
travel
war
weaponry
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: lands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: landing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: landed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: landed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Most insects live on land.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
gloss: A country or region.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They come from a faraway land.
gloss: A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: wet land
good or bad land for growing potatoes
gloss: Realm, domain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-compounds
often
uncountable
examples: I'm going to Disneyland.
Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
gloss: The ground left unploughed between furrows.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A shock or fright.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: He got an awful land when the police arrived.
gloss: A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
gloss: The ground or floor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: her selfe vppon the land / She did prostrate
gloss: The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
The human eye is a precision instrument. It can detect grooves and lands on a slug more efficiently than any computer.
gloss: A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The plane is about to land.
gloss: To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: 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.
gloss: To come into rest.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To bring to land.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
Use the net to land the fish.
I'll undertake to land them on our coast.
gloss: To capture or arrest.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: `He told me that he was certain that Coates shot at him. We threw out a drag and landed Coates within an hour.'
gloss: To acquire; to secure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She landed a job at the company.
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.
Siemens has landed a contract to upgrade signalling on the entire 170km (105-mile) S-Bane suburban network in Copenhagen to pave the way for fully automated trains.
At 30, I landed my first real foothold: an assistant job at a major publishing house.
gloss: To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Too ugly to ever land a chick.
gloss: To deliver.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match.
gloss: To connect (to arrive at an intended target).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!
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”; […].
gloss: To go down well with an audience.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.
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."
Derived words: adland
airland
aland
aridland
autoland
backland
barrel of land
benchland
Bergisches Land
birthland
blackland
blogland
bogland
bottomland
bowerland
buckshot land
byland
caneland
canyonland
chalkland
Chicagoland
chink land
Chink land
chopstick land
Cleveland
cloud cuckoo land
cloud-cuckoo-land
cloudland
clubland
coastland
common land
convertible land
copland
cornland
cotland
counterland
cradleland
crash land
croftland
cropland
crown land
cubeland
Curtisland
dairyland
Damaraland
Dayak land
deadland
desertland
do a land-office business
dockland
domed land snail
driftland
dryland
duneland
eastland
edgeland
Egyptland
Elfland
Ellsworth Land
escapeland
estate in land
fairyland
farm land
fatherland
fat of the land
fernland
filmland
Fingoland
fireland
flogging the land
floodland
folkland
foras land
forbyland
Fordlandia
foreland
Forest Land
forestland
Frankland
Freelander
freeman on the land
gameland
gangland
gangsterland
geländeläufer
genderland
ghostland
glebe-land
glory-land
gorseland
Graham Land
grainland
grazeland
Greenland
Groveland
gumland
hayland
headland
heartland
heathland
heteroland
Highland
hipsterland
Hungarland
Iceland
interest in land
island
Jockland
Kaiser Wilhelm II Land
King Frederick VIII Land
Kirkland
kirkland
Kiwiland
Knud Rasmussen Land
lackland
lakeland
Lala land
la-la land
La-La Land
la-la-land
landability
landable
land acknowledgement
land acknowledgment
land agent
land ahoy
land art
land artist
landbank
landbanking
landbase
landbased
land battleship
land-beaver
land before time
landbirding
landblink
landboc
landbook
landbound
land breeze
land bridge
land bubble
landcare
land clearer
landcover
land crab
land cress
land cruiser
land degradation
land diving
land-diving
land down under
lander
landfall
land-farer
landfarming
landfill
landflood
land force
landform
landfowl
landful
landfyrd
land girl
landgrab
landgrabber
land-grant
land grant
landguard
land guard
land gull
land-held
land ho
landhold
landholder
landholding
landhopper
land ironclad
landish
land-jobber
land-jobbing
landlady
landleaper
land-leech
land legs
landless
landlike
land line
landline
landliving
land lobster
landlock
landlocked
land-locked salmon
landlord
landlouper
land-lover
landlubber
landly
landman
land mark
landmark
land mass
landmass
land mile
land mine
landmine
landmonger
landocracy
landocrat
Land of 10
000 Lakes
land of a thousand hills
Land of Fire
land of fruits and nuts
land of milk and honey
land of Nod
land of opportunity
land of plenty
land of steady habits
Land of the Ascendant Sun
land of the free
land of the living
Land of the Long White Cloud
land o' Goshen
land on one's feet
Land o' the Leal
landowner
landowning
Land Park
land patent
landphoon
land pirate
landplane
land poor
land-poor
land quillwort
landrace
landrail
landreeve
land register
land rights
land rights for gay whales
land run
landrush
land rush
land sailing
land sake
land sake alive
land sakes
land sakes alive
land-salamander
landscape
landscraper
landscrip
Land's End
landshark
land-shark
land shark
land-sharking
land shell
land shrimp
landsick
land sickness
landside
landslide
landsliding
landslip
land slug
land smock
land snail
landspout
landspreading
land spring
land surface
land-surface
land surveyor
land take
land-take
land tax
land tenure
land the plane
land torpedo
land train
land under
land up over
land-use
land use
landwaiter
landward
landwards
landwhale
land whale
land wind
land with one's bum in the butter
landworker
land yacht
land-yacht
land yachting
law of the land
layland
lay of the land
Levelland
lie of the land
linksland
live off the land
loessland
Lotusland
lotus land
lubberland
magazineland
make land
marchland
markland
Markland
marshland
Mashonaland
Matabeleland
meadowland
mealie land
merland
Midland
mireland
misland
morning land
morning-land
mossland
motherland
muckland
mudland
multiland
my land
Namaqualand
native land
neckland
Netherland
netherlands
Netherlands
never fight a land war in Asia
neverland
never-never land
never start a land war in Asia
no-man's land
no-man's-land
noman's land
nonland
Northumberland
Oakland
O'Higgins Land
Oklahoma land rush
on land
otherlandish
ounceland
oxland
paddyland
parentland
parkland
peatland
pennyland
Pictland
plainland
plotland
Poland
portland
Portland
power in the land
prairieland
promised land
pure land
quangoland
quarterland
rainland
ranchland
rangeland
restaurantland
riceland
Richland
Richlands
rimland
rockland
sabbath of the land
sageland
scabland
scarpland
Schengenland
scrubland
sedgeland
how the land lies
Seriland
set foot on land
set the land
shackland
shadowland
shareland
shoreland
shrubland
sire-land
skyland
slobland
soapland
soft land
soft-land
spit of land
splash-land
stumpland
Sundaland
swampland
Swaziland
thaneland
theatreland
thirstland
tideland
townland
tussockland
userland
valley land
valley-land
valleyland
Victoria Land
vineland
washland
wasteland
waste land
waterland
Welshland
westland
wetland
wharfland
wheatland
white land
Wilkes Land
wineland
Wituland
Wolfe-land
Wolfland
womyn's land
Yankee land
yard of land
Zoom land
Zoom-land
Zululand
black land
crash-land
hard-land
hard land
land down
land in someone's lap
land on
land on one's bridge
land up
land upon
land with
reland
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: terrar
lang: Asturian
word: atracar
lang: Bulgarian
word: дебарки́рам
roman: debarkíram
lang: Catalan
word: atracar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 登陸 /登陆
roman: dēnglù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 上陸 /上陆
roman: shànglù
lang: Czech
word: přistát
lang: Esperanto
word: alteriĝi
lang: Esperanto
word: albordiĝi
lang: Finnish
word: nousta maihin
lang: French
word: aborder
lang: Japanese
word: 上陸する
roman: jōriku suru
lang: Korean
word: 닿다
roman: data
lang: Korean
word: 상륙하다
roman: sangnyukhada
lang: Latin
word: egredior
lang: Malay
word: darat
lang: Malay
word: mendarat
lang: Māori
word: mahuta
lang: Māori
word: eke
lang: Māori
word: ū
lang: Middle English
word: londen
lang: Middle English
word: lenden
lang: Norman
word: aborder
lang: Polish
word: dobić do brzegu
lang: Portuguese
word: desembarcar
lang: Russian
word: выса́живаться
roman: vysáživatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: вы́садиться
roman: výsaditʹsja
lang: Russian
word: прича́ливать
roman: pričálivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: прича́лить
roman: pričálitʹ
lang: Slovene
word: pristati
lang: Spanish
word: aterrar
lang: Spanish
word: atracar
lang: Swedish
word: landa
lang: Swedish
word: lägga till
lang: Turkish
word: inmek
lang: Yiddish
word: לאַנדן
roman: landn