land.
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Meaning & usage
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
Most insects live on land.
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.
There are 50 acres of land in this estate.
A country or region.
They come from a faraway land.
A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
wet land
good or bad land for growing potatoes
Realm, domain.
I'm going to Disneyland.
Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.
The ground left unploughed between furrows.
Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
A shock or fright.
He got an awful land when the police arrived.
A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.
The ground or floor.
The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
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.
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.
A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
Where this word comes from
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”).
To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
The plane is about to land.
To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
To come into rest.
To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
To bring to land.
It can be tricky to land a helicopter.
Use the net to land the fish.
To capture or arrest.
To acquire; to secure.
She landed a job at the company.
To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.
Too ugly to ever land a chick.
To deliver (a blow).
If you land a knockout blow, you’ll win the match.
To connect (to arrive at an intended target).
If the punches land, you might lose a few teeth!
To go down well with an audience.
Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.
Where this word comes from
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”).
lant; urine
Where this word comes from
From Middle English *land, from Old English hland. More at lant.
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